Hi,
If I have a .nsr file under something like /3/exports/data that looks
like this:
skip: data1.dmp
skip: data2.dmp
skip: DATA
and I have no other .nsr files further down, and I then manually launch
a save on one of the data files, say /3/exports/data/data1.dmp as:
save -s server -b pool_name -l full /3/exports/data/data1.dmp
or I launch a save on the DATA directory as:
save -s server -b pool_name -l full /3/exports/data/DATA
then shouldn't everyhing get backed up even though there's a .nsr file
there? It's my understanding that when you explicitly specify the path
of a file or a directory at the level or below where the .nsr file
resides, as I've done, then the .nsr file would not get used. But it
will get used if I ran something like:
save -s server -b pool_name -l full /3/exports/data
or anything above that, and it will also get used any time a save on
/3/exports/data or above gets executed from the server. Am I right? The
reason I'm concerned is that I've seen cases where we'd backed up a
symbolic link to a file system, rather the real pathname, not realizing
that it was a link. So we mioght have had something like /home ->
/raid/home, and we ran something like: save -s server -b pool -l full
/home/fname.
In this case, NetWorker grinds away at it just like it was the real
data, and you don't know about it until you go to recover it. At recover
time, it will take just as long to read through it (why, I don't know),
but nothing will ever be recovered which makes sense since it was just a
link. I'm concerned that this might be happening here, too, wherein we
think the data is getting backed up but maybe it's not? We frequently
create these .nsr files to prevent the data from getting captured by the
nightly backups, but we've been assuming that we were capturing it when
we ran a one-time full against the full pathname of the affected
file(s).
Thanks.
George
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