As long as you are using
groups, your indices will be automatically backed up. Every time
a group with clienta runs, clienta's index will be backed up. Ifthe server isn't in an active group, the bootstrap will run when every
group runs. (See the question above.) However, I like to go
a little farther than that.
In the opinion of the FAQ
maintainer, the best way to do this is to create a group that contains
all clients. Then run the command once a day from cron orat:
savegroup -O -l Full -G groupname
The -O option tells
NetWorker to only back up the indexes for the clients in that group.
The -l Full tells it to perform a full backup. This works
around the difficulties of doing an mmrecov with a level 9 bootstrap.
I'm not sure about older versions of Networker, but on my 7.1.1 installation the command is "savegrp", not savegroup.
I would also suggest creating a separate Index pool for this group, that will allow you to isolate and easily identify this backup if you need it for disaster recovery.