Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Create a Client resource with the Client Properties dialog box

The following procedure provides the basic steps to create a client resource for scheduled backups. Additional configuration of the Client resource may be necessary for clients such as VMware or NAS device clients, or to take advantage of product features such as probe-based backups or archiving.

1. In the Administration window, click Protection.
2. In the expanded left pane, select Clients.
3. From the File menu, select New.
   The Client Properties dialog box appears, starting with the General tab.
4. In the Name box, type the hostname or the FQDN of the client computer. The FQDN of a NetWorker Client can contain up to 255 characters. For more information, see NetWorker Client FQDN compliant with RFC 1123.
   NOTE: In NetWorker 19.9, you can configure NSM with NetApp ONTAP. The NetWorker Snapshot Management for NAS Devices Integration Guide provides more information on how to configure NSM with NetApp ONTAP 7-Mode and ONTAP Cluster Mode.
5. (Optional) In the Comment box, type a description of the client.
   If multiple Client resources are being set up for the same host, type a comment that distinguishes the Client resources.
6. In the Tag box, type one or more tags to identify this Client resource for the creation of dynamic client groups for data protection policies.
   Place each entry on a separate line.
7. To allow a failed backup operation to restart at a known good point before the point of failure during the backup, select the Checkpoint enabled checkbox.
   Configuring checkpoint restart backups provides more information on the requirements for checkpoint restart.
8. From the Directive list, select a directive to control how the NetWorker Server processes files and directories during backup and recovery.
9. In the Save set box, type the name of the files or directories to back up, or click the Browse button to browse and select file system objects.
   NOTE:To avoid the over consumption of memory, NetWorker limits the number of files that you can view when you browse a directory that contain a large number of files, for example, 200,000 files. When NetWorker determines that displaying the number of files will exhaust memory resources, NetWorker will display a partial list of the files and a message similar to the following appears: Expanding this directory has stopped because the result has too many entries

   When you manually specify the save set value, place multiple entries on separate lines. For example, to back up a log file directory that is named C:\log and all the data under the directory that is named D:\accounting, type the following entries:

   C:\log
   D:\accounting

   Follow the guidelines in the section "Mapped drives" to back up mapped drives on Windows systems.

   To back up all client data, type ALL. For Windows operating systems, the ALL save set includes the DISASTER_RECOVERY:\ save set, which includes the WINDOWS ROLES AND FEATURES save set.

   NOTE:Some operating systems contain files and directories that should not be backed up. Use directives to ensure that these files and directories are not backed up.

   Save sets provides more information on defining the save sets for a Client resource.

10. Select the other tabs in the Client Properties dialog box and configure options as necessary.
11. Click OK.