I asked about scheduling partial backups with NetWorker SingleServer:
>
> > Fair enough that the fancy stuff like cross network backups won't work,
> > but all I want to do is to set up a scheduled backup of one machine onto
> > it's own tapedrive. This works, but only if I want to backup the whole
> > filesystem at one go, which I don't. As far as I can see, there is no way
> > to set Networker to back up say just /users in a backup schedule. Am I
> > supposed to buy more licences from DEC to do something this simple?
>
I got a really clear and complete answer from Paul Rockwell - thanks Paul
(many thanks also to the others who replied - I appreciate your help)
Here is Paul's reply in full:
> The NetWorker SingleServer software will not let you modify the client
> record for the system it's running on - and the save sets that it backs up
> defaults to "All", which means you get all file systems mounted on the system.
>
> It also won't let you modify schedules.
>
> To modify schedules and that client record, you need the full NetWorker
> server license (model # QL-2ALA?-AA in the US). However, if you have an
> AlphaServer system shipped after December 1994, you *may* be in luck. At
> least in the USA, those systems shipped with a Network Application Support (NAS)
> 200 license. After you install it, and load the appropriate software from the
> Layered Products CD-ROM (which is not much more than an installation program),
> that NAS200 license explodes into several layered product licenses. One of
> which is..... a NetWorker server license.
>
> You don't need any NSR client license.
>
> So, you may already have the license you need... Check it out.
>
> If all you want to *ever* do with NSR SingleServer is back up your /users,
> you can use NSR directives to force it to skip over the file systems that
> you don't want.
>
> Simply create a file called .nsr in the top level directory of each of your
> file systems that you don't want to back up. Put the following in that file:
>
> +skip: *
>
> NSR should now skip that file system for backup.
> --------
> +---------------------------+tm Paul E. Rockwell
> | | | | | | | | Northeast Region SBU Technical Support
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>
> Internet: rockwell_at_rch.dec.com Phone: (860)258-5022
>
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Received on Fri Nov 03 1995 - 14:58:05 NZDT