Peter:

We had considered the idea, but decided against it.  The possibility of
loops and/or someone doing something stupid like mounting root.afs was
just too great a risk for us.

We actually create a 'backup tree' before we run backups every night.  
This backup tree has mount points for the backup volume (which gets
updated every night)for every volume we want to back up.  The script also
updates the dsm.opt and dsm.sys files to include all of the requisite
virtualmountpoint and domain entries, then restarts "dsmc sched"

The downside to this is the processing necessary to
create this tree each night, and that restores are slightly more complex
because an alternate destination directory has to be specified.

Hope this helps...
Regards,
Brian


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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Peter D�mpert wrote:

// Hi *SM'ers,
// 1. I'd like to know if anyone is using this option in the following
// format:
//      AFSbackupmntpnt NO
// 
// or the DFS-pendant
//      DFSbackupmntpnt NO
// 
// 2. anyone using this option in the above form could they report on positive 
// or BAD experiences (e.g. having trouble by users doing own "fs mounts"
// or having created cyclic mount points).
// Thanks for Your cooperation,
// -- 
// MfG / Ciao         - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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