Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Types of directives

There are three types of directives.

• Global directives—Stored as resources on the NetWorker server and can be selectively applied to individual clients by using the Directive attribute of the Client resource.
• NetWorker User local directive—On Windows clients only, users with local Windows Administrator or Backup Operator privileges can create a local directive in the NetWorker User program. A file that is named networkr.cfg on the client file system contains the directive configuration information. NetWorker uses the directive that is specified in the networkr.cfg during a scheduled backup, a backup that is started with the NetWorker User application, and save operations that do not include the -i option.
• Local directive files—User-created files named nsr.dir (Windows) or .nsr (UNIX) anywhere on a client file system where they have permission to create files. These directives apply only to the immediate data within the path where the directive file is located.

If there is a conflict between directives, global directives are enforced over local directives. Also, NetWorker User program local directives are enforced over local directive files (nsr.dir files) on Windows hosts.