Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Strategies for server backup and maintenance

When you install or upgrade the NetWorker server, the installation or upgrade process creates a default Server Protection policy for server backup and maintenance activities. You can edit the default policy, workflows, groups, and actions, or create a set of policies for server backup and maintenance.

After you install or upgrade the NMC server and then connect to the NMC GUI for the first time, the Console Configuration wizard prompts you to configure the NetWorker server that will backup the NMC server database.

When you define the database backup server, the Console Configuration wizard:

• Creates a Client resource for the NMC Server database backup. The Save set field for the client contains the path to the database staging directory. By default, the staging directory is in C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\Management\nmcdb_stage on Windows and /opt/lgtonmc/nmcdb_stage on Linux.
  NOTE:

  The file system that contains the staging directory must have free disk space that is a least equal to the size of the current NMC database. The section "Changing the staging directory for NMC database backups" describes how to change the staging directory location.

  cst folder is not listed as save set under Server Protection - NMC server backup for linux servers. Only /nsr/nmc/nmcdb_stage is listed under backed up save set. Backup of cst folder is taken internally, which can be verified in Recovery Wizard after the Server Protection policy backup is succeeded.
• Creates a group called NMC server.
• Adds the Client resource to the NMC server group.
• Creates a workflow that is called NMC server backup in the Server Protection policy. The workflow contains the NMC server backup action, which performs a full backup of the NMC server database every day at 2 P.M.
• Adds the NMC server group to the NMC server backup workflow.