Legato NetWorker ClientPak and Storage Node Installation Guide

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Chapter 3: Configuration
Configuring the MPE Client on the NetWorker Server
Before you use NetWorker to back up a NetWorker MPE client, you must add the client
to the NetWorker server. When you add the client, you need to choose a network-wide
backup schedule, assign a backup group, and choose backup directives. Make sure the
server can access the client for its scheduled network-wide backups. Refer to the Legato
NetWorker Administrator’s Guide for your NetWorker server platform for information
on configuring a new NetWorker client on a NetWorker server.
You can configure your HP 3000 as two MPE client resources on the NetWorker server:
one for performing server-initiated backups of non-volume sets, such as specific files
and directories, and one for performing server-initiated backups of MPE volume sets.
The advantages of configuring a separate client resource for MPE volume sets are as follows:
• You can customize the backup schedules of your MPE volume sets to do “Full”
backups so you get an entire, consistent view of the NetWorker save sets.
Nevertheless, NetWorker does not prevent the use of incremental backups of
MPE volume sets. Refer to Chapter 3, “Scheduled Backup Configuration,” of the
Legato NetWorker Administrator’s Guide for more information on configuring
schedules for your client.
• You can schedule infrequent full backups of MPE volume sets, for example, once
a month. However, if an entire volume set has nonsystem data that changes
frequently, you should increase the frequency of the full backups, for example,
every week or every day.