Performing Manual Backups

You can perform immediate manual backups of selected automatic backup schedules and clients within a policy. A manual backup is useful for situations such as:

• Testing a configuration.
• When workstations miss their regular backups.
• Before installing new software (to preserve the old configuration).
• Preserving records before a special event such as when companies split or merge.
• Quarterly or yearly financial information.
• In some cases, it may be useful to create a policy and schedule that you use only for manual backups. You can do this by creating it with a single schedule that has no backup window (and therefore never runs automatically).

  To perform a manual backup

1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Policies and select the policy name in the middle pane.
2. Select Actions > Manual Backup. (The policy must be set to Active for this command to be available.) The Manual Backup dialog appears.

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     Note    Not only does the policy need to be Active, but if Go into effect is set on the policy to a future date and time, the backup will not run.

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3. In the Manual Backup dialog, select the schedule and the clients that you want to back up.

   If you do not select any schedules, NetBackup uses the schedule with the highest retention level. If you do not select any clients, NetBackup backs up all clients.

   User schedules do not appear in the schedules list and cannot be manually backed up because they do not have a backup selection list (the user selects the files).

4. Click OK to start the backup.