Re: [Networker] directive question: skipping all "oradata" dirs o n any

Hi Phillip,

Your directive has 2 bits the first < / > (or < "full path") is where the
directive is applied (so if you put the root in it will apply "from" root
down thre tree of your OS).

Secondly the + skip: *.dbf *.bat *.whatever section

+ means that it recursively applies the directive from there onwards
(typically all directories below root or below whichever path you
specified).

Skip obviously means "dont backup" and then you van specify what to skip -
whith spaces inbetween to seperate the various files.

Example - I have a directive that skips all "special" data - of files which
I then backup later using Legato's modules (i.e. exchange, oracle, sap, sql
etc).

< / >
+skip: *.log *.edb *.mdb

(etc if you get what I mean).

Downside to this is if there is something that has a file with the same
extension that is NOT backed up when doing a "module" backup you dont backup
that file ... risk ...

You can as well go into your user manager on the specific client and goto
"local directives" and DESELECT the files you dont want to backup. This is
more intensive - as you have to do it for each client - but safer.

Its a long winded reply, but its Friday and I am looking for "easy" things
to take up my time ... ;p

Regards,

Riaan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Smykay [mailto:csmykay AT RACKSPACE DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:19 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] directive question: skipping all "oradata" dirs
on any filesystem


Phillip,

I have run into the same issue and can not find any good documentation for
skipping an entire directory.  However I have come up with the following

This works good for skipping and entire directory on a *NIX server.
<< /path/to/oradata >>
        +skip: *.*

The downside, having to create this line for each directory you want backed
up.  The up side, it actually works.

Also here is and example I used for windows:

<< "D:\program files\mssql\data\" >>
        +skip: *.*

You get the idea.

Hope this helps some.

Regards,
Chad Smykay, RHCE
Storage Administrator
Rackspace Managed Hosting
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Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:41 PM
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Subject: [Networker] directive question: skipping all "oradata" dirs on any
filesystem

All,

I've searched the archives of this list for help already and read the man
pages on uasm and nsr_directive, but, finding nothing that answered my
question, I'm relegated to posting here (and resulting jeering from the
audience, maybe.  :-)

For a given UNIX client, I wish to skip from any filesystem the contents of
any directory called "oradata" at any level.  While logic would tell me to
use this:

<< / >>
       +skip:  oradata

I'm seeing lots of hefty ./oradata/filename.dbf files being backed up, which
tells me this isn't working.

Since it's also occurred to me that what we're *really* trying to do is
avoid backing up active *.dbf files anyway, I could use

<< / >>
      +skip: *.dbf

but I'd like comments nonetheless.  TIA, -ty

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Re: [Networker] directive question: skipping all "oradata" dirs o n any filesystem
