{"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 – Getting a bootstrap with every backup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NetWorker<\/a><\/p>\n

One question you’ll periodically see raised in NetWorker forums is … “why am I getting a bootstrap backup with every backup?”<\/p>\n

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’ll get a bootstrap backup.<\/p>\n

However, if the backup server isn’t<\/em> in any<\/em> group that automatically starts, the server will act to protect the media database and configuration files by doing a bootstrap backup with every<\/em> backup. That way, between the bootstraps and indices backed up with every backup, there’s a good chance that the backup server will be sufficiently recoverable.<\/p>\n

In more recent versions of NetWorker, you’ll even see an alert to tell you when this has happened:<\/p>\n

[root@tara ~]# savegrp -c test01 AFTD<\/strong>\n3:savegrp: Added 'tara.pmdg.lab' to the group 'AFTD' for bootstrap backup<\/pre>\n
While some people erroneously think otherwise, electing to 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":"
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