Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows: Administrator's Reference

|BACKUP NODE (Back Up a NAS Node)

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|Use this command to start a backup operation for a network-attached |storage (NAS) node.

|Backups that are created for NAS nodes with this BACKUP NODE command are |functionally equivalent to backups that are created by using the BACKUP NAS |command on a Tivoli Storage Manager client. You can restore these |backups with either the server's RESTORE NODE command or the |client's RESTORE NAS command.

|Privilege Class

|To issue this command, you must have system privilege, policy privilege for |the domain to which the node is assigned, or client owner authority over the |node.

|Syntax

|>>-BAckup Node--node_name--+--------------------------+--------->
|                           | .-,--------------------. |
|                           | V                      | |
|                           '-----file_system_name---+-'
| 
|                             .-MODE--=--DIFFerential-----.
|>--+----------------------+--+---------------------------+------>
|   '-MGmtclass--=--mcname-'  '-MODE--=--+-FULL---------+-'
|                                        '-DIFFerential-'
| 
|   .-Wait--=--No------.
|>--+------------------+----------------------------------------><
|   '-Wait--=--+-No--+-'
|              '-Yes-'
| 
| 

|Parameters |

|node_name (Required)
|Specifies the node for which the backup will be performed. You |cannot use wildcard characters or specify a list of names.

|file_system_name
|Specifies the name of one or more file systems to back up. The file |system name that you specify cannot contain wildcard characters. You |can specify more than one file system by separating the names with commas and |no intervening spaces. If you do not specify a file system, all file |systems will be backed up. In determining the file systems to process, |the server will not use any DOMAIN.NAS, INCLUDE.FS.NAS, |or EXCLUDE.FS.NAS statements in any client option file or client |option set. If you back up multiple file systems, each file system |backs up as a separate server process.

|MGmtclass
|Specifies the name of the management class to which this backup data is |bound. If you do not specify a management class, the backup data is |bound to the default management class of the policy domain to which the node |is assigned. In determining the management class, the server will |not use any INCLUDE.FS.NAS statements in any client |option file or client option set.

|MODE

|Specifies whether the file system backups are full or differential. |The default is DIFFERENTIAL. |

|FULL
|Specifies to back up the entire file system.

|DIFFerential
|Specifies to back up only the files that have changed since the most |recent full backup. If you choose a differential backup, and a full |backup is not found, a full backup is performed. |

|Wait
|Specifies whether to wait for the server to complete processing this |command in the foreground. The default is NO. Possible values |are: |

|No
|Specifies that the server processes this command in the background. |Use the QUERY PROCESS command to monitor the background processing of this |command.

|Yes
|Specifies that the server processes this command in the foreground. |You wait for the command to complete before continuing with other |tasks. The server then displays the output messages to the |administrative client when the command completes. If you are backing up |multiple file systems, all backup processes must complete before the command |is complete.
|Note:
You cannot specify Wait=Yes from the server console. |
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|Examples

|Task

|Perform a full backup on the /vol/vol10 file system of NAS node |NAS1. |

|Command:
|backup node nas1 /vol/vol10 mode=full |

|Related Commands
|

|Table 19. Commands Related to BACKUP NODE

Command Description
RESTORE NODE Restores a network-attached storage (NAS) node.
BACKUP NAS (Tivoli Storage Manager client command) Creates a backup of NAS node data.
RESTORE NAS (Tivoli Storage Manager client command) Restores a backup of NAS node data.


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