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Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

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Performing a manual backup on Windows

Create a local directive on the client computer to exclude local file type devices from manual backups with the NetWorker User program:

  1. Start the NetWorker User program.
  2. From the Options menu, select Local Backup Directives.
  3. Clear the checkbox for the local file type device.
  4. From the File menu, select Save Directive.

NetWorker User local directives provides more information on local directives.

NOTE:You cannot perform data deduplication during backups with the NetWorker User program. You must perform scheduled backups or manual backups from the command line to perform data deduplication during the backup.
  1. In the NetWorker User program, click Backup.
    The Backup window appears.
  2. Select the data to back up.
    To back up critical volumes, UEFI, the system reserved partition, and WINDOWS ROLES AND FEATURES for disaster recovery purposes, select the DISASTER_RECOVERY save set.
  3. Click Start.

    The Backup Status dialog box displays the progress of the backup. When the backup finishes, a Backup completion time message appears.

    If the backup fails due to a problem with VSS or a writer, an error message appears. Use the Windows Event Viewer to examine the event logs for more information. VSS backup error messages are also written to the NetWorker log file.

    The NetWorker log file in \install_path\logs\networkr.raw contains a record of every file that was part of an attempted manual backup from the NetWorker User program. This file is overwritten with the next manual backup. To save the information in the file, rename the file or export the information by using the nsr_render_log program.

    NOTE:Certain types of corrupt files or errors on computer disk volumes are not detected. NetWorker might back up this corrupt data. To avoid this situation, run diagnostic programs regularly to correct disk volume errors.

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