Legato Networker ClientPak for MPE/iX Users Guide

Chapter 2: Backing Up Files
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Setting System Variables for Client-Initiated Backups
You can set system variables in a CI session to affect client-initiated backups
that you perform from that specific session. Once you have set a system
variable in a CI session, then the setting affects all manual backups done
during that session until you turn the setting off in that CI session. You can
perform backups from a CI session where the system variables have not been
set if you don’t want them applied to specific backups.
Note that the system variables that you set do not affect server-initiated
backups. The system administrator can set these same variables for the
scheduled backups done from the NetWorker server. Similarly, system
variables that are set for the server-initiated backups do not affect your client-
initiated backups.
The types of system variables that you can set for client-initiated backups are
as follows:
• Set the Networker time zone to match the HP STORE process.
• Create logs of your Networker backups.
• Store temporary shadow logs of TurboSTORE online backups on a
separate MPE volume set.
Setting the NetWorker Time Zone to Match the HP STORE Process
The HP STORE process could be running in a different time zone then
NetWorker which runs in Greenwich Mean Time. You can set the TZ variable
to change the NetWorker time zone to match the HP STORE time zone.
Important: You should always have the TZ variable set when doing server-
initiated backups, doing client-initiated backups, or recovering files and
directories with NetWorker. For example, when you are recovering your files,
you need to set the time zone variable; otherwise the backup times in the
recover browser could be Greenwich Mean.
To set the time zone for client-initiated backups, add the following system
variable when you start a CI session:
: SETVAR TZ " EST5daylight "
Note that the value EST5daylight is only an example; it might not be
appropriate for your time zone.