We want to be able to do index recoveries, right? If something terrible happens on the backup server, being able to recover the indices is pretty important.
There’s something which is often forgotten however when it comes to index backups, and if you don’t know about it, you may get stung.
In some environments, when a client is decommissioned, the client is deleted from the resource database but the index is left in place. (I’m not a fan of this – if you want to continue to recover from a client, you should leave the client configured!)
NetWorker will only do index maintenance tasks on clients that are configured. These maintenance tasks are:
- Backup
- Recovery
- Upgrade
If you really want to be able to recover from clients at a future date, even if you’re not actively backing them up now, do you really want to risk that the indices for those clients are no longer available?
