If your backup server is in a scheduled group it will run the bootstrap with that group once every 24 hours; if your backup server is not in a scheduled group it will run the bootstrap after every group completes.
What it says is that to generate bootstrap the backup server should be added in a group as a client even if you take a small file backup of the backup server.
It sounds a little confusing looking at that excerpt from the admin guide; basically what is saying is that if you have your backup server in a scheduled group but would also like to back the bootstrap up with every group then you need to have a backup of the backup server running in each group no matter how small that backup is (they suggest the hosts file as it is typically a very small file that your server will definitely have).
The other thing to note is the group must be active otherwise it does not count...
If you do these things even for non-scheduled backups the bootstrap should run only where you want it to....
Thanks for the reply. At first i have really no idea what was bootstrap all about until i did some further searching where the bootstrap is required when we are going to do a Networker Server DR (or i might be wrong).
Anyway, i am going to create a schedule backup of my Networker server everyday. So will the bootstrap backup still appear after every completed group backups? My concern is that i having backups to my hard drive and cloned to my tapes and my I/O (single tape drive library) are heavily utilize whenever bootstrap backup runs, a lot of time used to mount and unmount, rewind, etc...
If you put your backup server into (an) active scheduled group(s) the bootstrap will only run with that/those groups, not any other groups.
If you do not put your backup server into at least one active scheduled group the bootstrap will run after every group completes.
I would suggest you run the group with your backup server in it last as this will make a backup of your media database with all the night's changes in it; if you run it first then run all your backups, in the event of a disaster the next day you will need to scan in the night's tapes to see what is there, not something you would want to be doing if you have a lot of pressure to get server's restored and back online quickly!
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amediratta
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Why would you want to disable bootstrap backups?
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April 21st, 2009 01:00
The other thing to note is the group must be active otherwise it does not count...
If you do these things even for non-scheduled backups the bootstrap should run only where you want it to....
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Thanks for the reply. At first i have really no idea what was bootstrap all about until i did some further searching where the bootstrap is required when we are going to do a Networker Server DR (or i might be wrong).
Anyway, i am going to create a schedule backup of my Networker server everyday. So will the bootstrap backup still appear after every completed group backups? My concern is that i having backups to my hard drive and cloned to my tapes and my I/O (single tape drive library) are heavily utilize whenever bootstrap backup runs, a lot of time used to mount and unmount, rewind, etc...
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April 22nd, 2009 01:00
If you do not put your backup server into at least one active scheduled group the bootstrap will run after every group completes.
I would suggest you run the group with your backup server in it last as this will make a backup of your media database with all the night's changes in it; if you run it first then run all your backups, in the event of a disaster the next day you will need to scan in the night's tapes to see what is there, not something you would want to be doing if you have a lot of pressure to get server's restored and back online quickly!