Can I start an backup by command line manually ?

You can run savegrp from CLI on backup server.  With -l parameter you can control backup level.

If running from client, you can use save command, but this in theory is always full backup.

Lei Liu,

You can use save directly on the client or you can use savegrp from the NetWorker server. There are various options for level, retention and clients which can be supplied to achieve what you desire. Please see Command Line Reference Guide for all options.

Regards,

Bill Mason

If the need is to initiate backups from a client and have it follow a defined schedule you can use the savefs command.

Here’s a sample of the syntax, establish the client resource with the appropriate schedule assigned to it along with the

required save set definition defined then assign it to a group that will be referenced by the call.

CMD: C:/progra1/EMCNET1/nsr/bin/savefs  -s NW-02.brsvlab.local -g ADME_Inc -q  C:/ADME/INCREMENTAL

86704:save: Successfully established DDCL session for save-set ID 'XXXXXXXXX' (nw-02.XXXXX.local:C:\ADME\INCREMENTAL).

nw-02.brsvlab.local: C:\ADME\INCREMENTAL level=incr, 900 KB 00:00:06      345 files

regards,

Adam

Normally in server-client model with central schedule one should not encourage users to use client side tricks, but if they really really have to then RUSER/RCMD would be the way to go where they would call from client server side process for client backup.