Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Manual backups or client-initiated backups

Use the save command with the -z option to perform a client-initiated block based backup from the command line.

Ensure that you meet the following requirements for a client-initiated backup:

• The device must be Client Direct enabled.

  You can provide a pool of Client Direct enabled devices by using the save command with the -b option.

• The client-initiated block based backup supports the full level save sets that you define only at the volume level.
• Do not name a manual snapshot with the same name as the block based backup snapshot.

  If a block based backup snapshot and a manual snapshot have the same name, performing the manual snapshot deletes the block based backup snapshot.