Legato NetWorker ClientPak for MPE/iX Installation Guide

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 Chapter 2, “Preconﬁgured Conﬁgurations”

and Chapter 5, “New NetWorker Client Conﬁguration” in the Legato

NetWorker Administrator’s Guide for 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 the sake of performing server-initiated backups of

nonvolume 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, to back up 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, to every week or to every day.

• You can set the “Store Index Entries” attribute for the pool resources that

you assign to MPE volume sets to “Off.” Setting “Store Index Entries” to

“Off” turns off the browsing capabilities which simpliﬁes browsing of

ﬁles and directories. Refer to Chapter 4, “Device and Media

Management” in the Legato NetWorker Administrator’s Guide for more

information on conﬁguring pool resources.