Backup Medium (NetWorker) 

If you want to perform backups or restores with the external backup tool NetWorker, you must define the appropriate backup media with the Database Manager.

Procedure

To create the backup medium, follow the procedure described in the Database Manger documentation.

The media name must begin with the character string NSR.

Definition of a pipe as a medium for an incremental data backup with a DBMCLI command (Windows):

dbmcli -d <database_name> -u <userid>,<password> medium_put NSR123 \\.\pipe\Example pipe pages

The backup medium must be a pipe and must not have any capacity limits.

The name of the pipe must be specified as an absolute path. The pipes used must not exist.

The absolute name of the pipe must be identical at backups and restores. Note that file or directory paths that are specified as links are resolved by the backup tool NetWorker.

On Server A, a backup is performed using /tmp/nsr_pipe. The directory /tmp is a link to the directory /var/tmp. When restoring to Server B, you must use the pipe var/tmp/nsr_pipe.

You can perform parallel backups using multiple pipes.

See also:

Configuration of the NetWorker Connection