{"id":4655,"date":"2013-01-30T18:39:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T08:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2018-12-11T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:14:07","slug":"basics-getting-a-bootstrap-with-every-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/basics-getting-a-bootstrap-with-every-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Basics &#8211; Getting a bootstrap with every backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bootstrap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4726\" alt=\"NetWorker Bootstrap\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bootstrap.jpg\" width=\"421\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bootstrap.jpg 421w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bootstrap-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One question you&#8217;ll periodically see raised in NetWorker forums is &#8230; &#8220;why am I getting a bootstrap backup with every backup?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer is actually a fairly simple one: if the backup server is in an auto-starting group, then every time that auto-starting group is run, you&#8217;ll get a bootstrap backup.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the backup server&nbsp;<em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> in <em>any<\/em> group that automatically starts, the server will act to protect the media database and configuration files by doing a bootstrap backup with&nbsp;<em>every<\/em> backup. That way, between the bootstraps and indices backed up with every backup, there&#8217;s a good chance that the backup server will be sufficiently recoverable.<\/p>\n<p>In more recent versions of NetWorker, you&#8217;ll even see an alert to tell you when this has happened:<\/p>\n<pre>[root@tara ~]# <strong>savegrp -c test01 AFTD<\/strong>\n3:savegrp: Added 'tara.pmdg.lab' to the group 'AFTD' for bootstrap backup<\/pre>\n<p>While some people erroneously think otherwise, electing to&nbsp;<em>not<\/em> backup the backup server itself is a completely unsound, unsafe and unrecommended data protection strategy. Always make sure your backup server gets backed up daily, with full backups at a suitably regular interval, and make sure those backups are cloned, and tested, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One question you&#8217;ll periodically see raised in NetWorker forums is &#8230; &#8220;why am I getting a bootstrap backup with every&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[176,464],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basics","tag-bootstrap","tag-index"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-1d5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7468,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/7468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}