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Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Managing Actions

The following table lists nsradmin commands that manage NSR Protection Policy Action resources:

Table 1. Commands to manage NSR Protection Policy Action resources
Actions Example Commands
To create action with default settings nsradmin> create type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; Workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; name: BackupAction1
To create action with specific settings nsradmin> create type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; Workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; name: BackupAction1; action type:backup; backup subtype:traditional; period:week; actions:"full,full,full,incr,incr,incr,incr"; destination storage node:"nsrserverhost"; destination pool: Data Domain Default;apply dd retention lock:yes; dd retention lock time:"16 Days"; client can override:no; overrides:"full third wednesday every month"; action retries:3; retry delay:10; action inactivity timeout:44; action parallelism:50; failure impact:"abort action"; soft limit:"21:23"; hard limit:"18:14"; start time:"14:14"
To create a clone action create type:NSR Protection Policy Action;name:clone1;policy name:Policy1;workflow name:Policy1-Workflow1;driven by: BackupAction1;action type:clone;retention:"12 days";browse:"2 Days";destination storage node:"StorageNode";source storage node:"nsrserverhost";destination pool:"default clone";exclude level:yes;filter level:"full";exclude client:yes;filter client:"client1";exclude saveset type:no;filter save set type:snapshot;exclude time range:yes;Filter time range start:"12:00";Filter time range end:"23:00"
To create action with subtype snapshot nsradmin> create type: NSR Protection Policy Action; name: Snaphot1 ; policy name: Policy1; workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; action type: backup; backup subtype: snapshot
To create a VMWARE action create type:NSR Protection Policy Action; name:VMAction1;policy name:Policy1;workflow name:Policy1-Workflow1; action type:backup;backup subtype:vmware; destination storage node:"StorageNode";retention:"12 days";vproxy name:"vproxy"
NOTE:The following operations are supported only via the NMC and NWUI for VMware backup action subtype:
  • Addition of the VMs to the NSR protection group
  • Creation of dynamic tags and policies
  • Update VMware action attributes to non-default values
To create action with type clone following action type backup nsradmin> create type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; action type: clone; driven by: BackupAction1; name: Clone1; Retention: 1 Years; browse:"2 Days"; destination pool: Data Domain Default Clone
To create a dependent clone action driven by earlier clone action nsradmin> create type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; action type: clone; driven by: Clone1; name: Clone2; Retention: 5 Years; Browse: 2 Years; destination pool: Data Domain Default Clone
To create pseudo resource of type NSR Protection policy action and associate it with NSR schedule resource create type: NSR Protection policy action; policy name:Policy1; workflow name:Policy1-Workflow1;name:BackupAction1; action type: backup; backup subtype: traditional; period: reference; actions:Schedule1
NOTE:Schedule1 is a valid NSR schedule resource.
To print (display) query set action nsradmin> print type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; name: BackupAction1
To update a query set action nsradmin> . type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; name: BackupAction1

nsradmin> update retention: 6 Months; browse:2 Months; dd retention lock time:3 Months; destination storage node: networker; client can override: yes; comment "This is special action with 3 Months Retention Lock!"

nsradmin> update period: month; actions: "full,incr,full,incr,full,incr,full,full,incr,full,incr,full,incr,full,full,incr,full,incr,full,incr,full,full,incr,full,incr,full,incr,full,incr,full,incr"

To delete a query set action nsradmin> delete type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; name: BackupAction1
To delete all actions with query set name from all workflows nsradmin> delete type: NSR Protection Policy Action; name: Snaphot1
To delete multiple actions from single workflow specifying action names nsradmin> delete type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; name: Clone1; name: Clone2; name: BackupAction1
To delete multiple actions with comma separated names nsradmin> delete type: NSR Protection Policy Action; name: BackupAction1, Clone1, Clone2
To delete all actions from query set workflow nsradmin> delete type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1
To set current query to an action nsradmin> . type: NSR Protection Policy Action; policy name: Policy1; workflow name: Policy1-Workflow1; name: BackupAction1

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