Allen,

No, I'm sure you could put "-snapshotroot=xxx" in the options argument to the 
client scheduler.  But your response made me realize that I left out one 
relevant point:  We are backing up several NAS volumes via the scheduler, not 
just one.  We use the pre- and post- scheduler exits to mount and unmount those 
volumes.

So, we would need to specify a snapshotroot 'target' for each volume that we 
want to backup.  It seems this is what 'include.fs' was designed for, to 
specify fs-specific options.

..Paul


At 09:29 AM 8/8/2012, Allen S. Rout wrote:
>On 08/07/2012 03:20 PM, Paul Zarnowski wrote:
>
>>It seems that the snapshotroot option would be perfect for doing
>>this, except for the fact that it only seems to work for 'selective'
>>or 'incremental' backups run from the command line.  I don't see a
>>way to do this for scheduled backups.
>
>Paul, does this mean that when you put -snapshotroot in the 'Options'
>argument to the client schedule, it doesn't work?
>
>I notice in the docs that it seems pedantic about only permitting
>snapshotroot when you're specifying one (and only one) filespace
>target.  It may be that you can't leave the filespace implicit in
>e.g. a DOMAIN statement, and you have to do something like
>
>
>def sched [domain] [name] [ action=incr ]  OBJ=/nasfs 
>OPT='-snapshootroot=/nasfs/.snapshot/nightly.0'
>
>
>- Allen S. Rout


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