Performing a manual backup
After you configure the servers and clients in your environment, you can test the configuration settings with a manual backup. Perform a manual backup (or backups) with the automatic backup schedules you created.
To perform a manual backup
- Open the NetBackup web UI.
- On the left, click Protection > Policies.
- Select the policy you want to test.
- Click Manual backup.
- Select the schedule that you want to use for the manual backup.
- For SQL Server Intelligent Policies, select the databases or instances that you want to include for the manual backup. For legacy SQL Server policies, select the clients that you want to include for the manual backup.