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Re: Solaris, auto_home and adsm clients Prev:Strange ADSM behavior with Solaris

1999-04-20 17:06:31
Subject: Re: Solaris, auto_home and adsm clients Prev:Strange ADSM behavior with Solaris
From: Joseph A Faracchio <SPGJAF AT CMSA.BERKELEY DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:06:31 PDT
A user of mine has discovered this problem as well and wants to know if
its fixed and in what lever/update.

                            ... joe.f.

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:02:50 +0200 you said:
>Does anyone know if this problem is fixed with client 3.1.0.6? I have
>similar problems with Client 3.1.0.3
>
>Regards
>
>Roger Hohmann
>
>====================================================
>>Tom,
>
>> I too, have seen something similar to what you describe.  I too am
>using
>> a V3 server and backup a Solaris 2.5.1 system.  In my context, I am
>> using the VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT option to limit ADSM backups to just
>> /export/home.  I see the same results of your tests with selective
>and
>> incremental.  All directories of /export/home get backed up EXCEPT
>> /export/home/joe.  I went back to the Version 2 client level and
>> everything works okay.  I have a PMR open with IBM on this and am
>> waiting for their response.
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Fluker, Tom R[SMTP:Tom.Fluker AT viasystems DOT com]
> > Sent:         Tuesday, February 10, 1998 2:25 PM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Strange ADSM behavior with Solaris
> >
> > I'm running V3 ADSM client on a Solaris 2.5.1 machine.  I have a
> > number
> > of file systems mounted on this machine that are also auto-mapped
> > (using
> > auto.direct files) as "home" directories for users.  As a result a
> > directory in the original file system (/export/home/joe) may also
>get
> > "automounted" as /home/joe for user joe.
> >
> > I have added a entry to the exclude file to exclude backup of
> > "/home/.../*" to eliminate two backups of the same file.
> > There are no excludes for the /export/home directories.
> >
> > My problem, and it seems related to this automounter thing, is that
> > /export/home/joe is not backed up by ADSM incremental backups.
> >
> > Further....
> >   dsmc selective '/export/home/joe/*' -subdir=yes -verbose  -- seems
> > to
> > work
> >   dsmc incr /export/home -verbose                           -- seems
> > to
> > expire all the files
> >                                                               backed
> > up
> > with selective backup
> >
> >   dsmc incr '/export/home/joe/*' -verbose   -- seems to work
> >   dsmc incr /export/home -verbose           -- seems to expire files
> >
> > It's my understanding that the scheduled backup is like the "dsmc
> > incr"
> > and it seems to result only in the expiration of anything I have
> > managed
> > to backup using the command line..
> >
> > Any ideas??
> >
> > Tom Fluker
> > tom.fluker AT viasystems DOT com
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