How to specify start order of clients in one savegroup

Hi,

In Administrator Guide:

The Priority attribute in the Client resource specifies the order in which clients are contacted for backup. The attribute can contain a value between 1 and 1,000. The lower the value, the higher the priority.

The client with the lowest value for the Priority attribute is placed at the top of the list to be contacted by the NetWorker server. If a value is not specified in the Priority attribute, the backup order is random.

While the Priority attribute specifies the order of client contact, many variables affect the order in which clients complete their backups, including these scenarios:

1. The backup operation on a client does not begin until the worklists for each of the save sets on the client are complete.
2. The amount of work can vary greatly from one client to the next.
3. If a client stops responding and times out, the client is put at the end of the backup list.

Note: The only way to guarantee that ClientA backs up before ClientB is to assign ClientA to a scheduled backup group that starts earlier than the group containing ClientB.

Regards,

Tim

Hi,

Unfortunately, NW priority feature from Client resource doesn't help in this matter, because the used priority numbers are more some kind of relative value, and not times interval... I've tried to use that, giving to Mars priority value 1 and to other two servers 999 but when the savegroup starts, all three servers are starting backup together in same time..

We've solved this use with savepnpc command on all three clients, on both server in question (Neptune and Saturn) savepnpc starts prejob  (wait 5 min before backup start)...

This solution is working fine, but there is still a problem to start backup of SQL Database with NW module for SQL, because of backup command (savepnpc), execution of nsrsqlsv command from prejob of savepnpc doesn’t work.
So that we are currently using only backup of SQL dump files. (not so fine solution because of point in time recovery and SQL transaction logs..)

Any idea how to predefine prejob of savepnpc command so that this process after wait time start nsrsqlsv service on client side? 

Thannks & Regards

You should be able to run all from single script... basically, you would call one single master script which calls subsequent ones... though I do not understand why such approach is needed in the first place.

There is priority option in client properties, there you can setup priority of client which gives order how the clients will be called during savegrp startup…

We have similar situation...but all clients in the group cannot be separated out using different groups for EV backup consistency...there is a need for ndmp backup start first due to streams limitation...looks like the priority is not working as expected?

NW7.6.3

thanks

Hi Thierry

Could you set your NDMP client priority to 1 and set the savegroup parallelism value to match the number of NDMP streams (or a lower number if you have several)?  That way, your NDMP backup should start first and only when all streams have been started and/or finished will the others kick in.

Brian