NSRD(8)                    Legato NetWorker 4.1.1                    NSRD(8)


NAME
       nsrd - daemon providing the NetWorker service

SYNOPSIS
       nsrd

       ansrd [ commentary ]

DESCRIPTION
       The nsrd daemon provides an RPC-based save and recover service.  This
       service allows users to save, query for, and recover their files
       across a network.  The RPC program number provided by nsrd is 390103.

       Normally nsrd is invoked from a startup shell script (for example
       rc.local, rc.boot) at boot-time, and should never need to be started
       directly by a user.  After it is started, nsrd starts up the other
       daemons it needs to provide the NetWorker service.

       The nsrd command must be run on a machine with appropriate resources.
       These resources include such things as devices (e.g. tape drives)
       which are under the control of the media multiplexor software,
       nsrmmd(8), and sufficient disk space for the index daemons,
       nsrindexd(8), and nsrmmdbd(8), to maintain the index of user files
       that have been saved and which volumes contain which files.

       Each time a backup, recover or various other sessions begin, nsrd
       starts another program, ansrd, to process the requested session.  The
       ansrd program is called an agent.  The agent is in charge of
       monitoring that backup, recover, or other session, and automatically
       exits when a session completes.  Using ps(8) or another process
       monitoring tool, one can inspect the subsequent parameters of ansrd
       to see what kind of session it is monitoring.  If necessary, agents
       can be forcibly terminated to abort a backup or recover session.
       Agents cannot be run directly; they can only be started by nsrd.

FILES
       /nsr/logs/daemonlog
                 The file to which nsrd and other NetWorker daemons send
                 information about various error conditions that cannot
                 otherwise be logged using the NetWorker event mechanism.

       /nsr/res/nsr.res
                 Attributes describing the NetWorker service and its
                 resources (See nsrservice(5)).

       /nsr/res/nsrjb.res
                 Attributes describing the jukebox resources of the
                 NetWorker service.

SEE ALSO
       nsr(8), nsrservice(5), nsrmmd(8), nsrmmdbd(8), nsrindexd(8), ps(8),
       rc(8).





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