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Legato Networker
Legato Networker
Legato Networker
# /etc/init.d/networker stop
# /etc/init.d/networker start
# nwadmin
# nwbackup
# nwrestore (or)
# nwrecover
# which nwrecover
Networker for Solaris CDROM contains the normal Solaris packages, which can be
installed using the pkgadd command.
1) Descend in to the (CDROM) directory, which contains the installation packages and
execute the following command.
# pkgadd –d .
This will install the Legato Networker backup server / storage node / client packages in
the system. We need to get the information about the packages installed using the
following command
# nwadmin
Creating Schedules
2) In the above console click on customize and select schedules
While creating use skip option on other days. For Ex. If you are creating Monday full
backup schedule mark all Mondays available on the calendar for full backup and skip
option for other days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
Similarly create other schedules for rest of the days.
3) We need to create the retention policy (Retention policy states that how many
days or month or years we need to retain the data in the tape once the data was
backed up). Go to customize and click on policy.
Click “apply” to commit changes.
For our customer environment 5 days retention is more than enough. This will make the
customer to have last 5 consistent t full at the end of the week. So, that he can go for any
of version (five) for restoration. (Ex. Monday backup will expire at the end of Saturday)
Group Creation
Similarly create group for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Create Pools
5) Create pools for each day so that we can accommodate Monday backup on
Monday tape, Tuesday backup on Tuesday and so on similarly.
Pool Defn: Pool is a collection of tapes, which can be assigned to groups to which the
clients are bound.
Mark the level of the backup as full, Enable Store index entries as yes and media verify
as yes also mark the devices as /dev/rmt/* as detected at site.
We need to label the medias under the pool there by assigning a media to a pool. By
doing this we are making sure that the Monday backup is going to Monday tape. Mark
slot one as first slot and slot 1 as last slot since we can have only one tape / pool (Sun L8
– Supports only 8 tapes – 7 Tapes for 7 days and one cleaning tape or one tape for
manual backup)
We need to opt for slot 2 for Tuesday, slot 3 for Wednesday and so on for subsequent
days.
Set lable name as Monday and bound the same to Monday pool, which is referred to
Monday group.
Add Client Hosts
Add client host as shown below and mark the SAVE SET. (Save set is the data of the
client, which should be backed up)
We need to add client for each schedule (Since Each backup should use separate pool
(tape) and cannot be incorporated with other pools.
Ex: Testclient should be added individually to all schedules because of our requirement.
Complete backup cycle in legato Networker an example
Explanation:
Monday backup will be initiated by Monday group at 23:50 Hrs of tuesday; Monday
schedules will triggered by Monday group, Monday group bound with Monday pool in
turn date will be backed up on Monday tape.
Configuring Devices:
# jbconfig