NetWorker resources

• Resources are the ingredients for backups. They are combined in an appropriate manner to create a backup instance.



• Resource creation & management
  
  
  • nwadmin GUI (the main GUI interface)
    
    
    • Use this as a launch point for resource GUIs.
    • On UNIX servers, invoked at the command line with "nwadmin &".
    • On Windows servers, invoked either through the "Start" menu or with a desktop icon.
  
  
  • Resource types & GUIs
    • Label template
    • Directive
    • Policy ("quarter")
    • Policy ("week")
    • Schedule ("monthly")
    • Schedule ("weekly")
    • Notification ("savegroup")
    • Notification ("tapemount 3")
    • Device
    • Jukebox/Library
    • Pool
    • Pool ("QIC")
    • Registration
    • Server
    • Group
    • Group ("sparky")
    • Client
  
  
  • nsradmin character cell interface
    
    
    • On UNIX servers, invoked at the command line with "nsradmin -c"
    • Device example
    • Client example


• All resource definitions are stored in ASCII files in the directory /nsr/res. The main resource file is /nsr/res/nsr.res. Whenever a resource is added, changed or removed, the appropriate resource file is updated. When NetWorker starts, it builds it resources in memory from the resource files.