Ah, please kindly disregard the directive I just posted a minute
ago: OSX mounts hard disk file systems under /Volumes too, so it's
not a good option.

Does anyone have a case open with Legato regarding this all?

steve
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systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin


 > ---- Original Message ----
 > From: Steve Rader
 >  > >Is your saveset "All" ?  All really means ALL: DVD's, audio CD's, Zip
 > dis
 >  > ks
 >  > >etc....
 >
 >  > In my experience, that's not how All works on UNIX platforms.
 >  > All doesn't back up /proc, it doesn't back up NFS volumes, and it
 >  > doesn't back up automatically mounted CDs (assuming ISO filesystem) or
 >  > DVDs (DVD fs) on other platforms.
 >  >
 >  > It *would* back up zip disks, assuming that the zip disk has a filesyst
 > em
 >  > that is native for the platform.
 >
 > Same goes for AFS: most Unix NetWorker clients "know" to skip /afs,
 > but the OSX NetWorker client does *not* skip /afs.  (One of my
 > first OSX backups shred through a magazine of tapes backing up
 > /afs--a global file space!!)
 >
 > I've seen the "problem" with iPods too--NetWorker will gladly back
 > them up.
 >
 > It appears that OSX mounts almost all non-harddrive file systems
 > under "/Volumes" so the directive that follows my sig should do
 > the trick.  (This should be verified for DVDs--I only tested audio
 > CDs, data CDs and my iPod.)
 >
 > steve
 > - - -
 > systems & network guy
 > high energy physics
 > university of wisconsin
 >
 >
 > << "/" >>
 >         skip: Desktop\ DB
 >         skip: Desktop\ DF
 >         +skip: .DS_Store
 >         skip: cores
 >         skip: VM_Storage
 >         skip: TheVolumeSettingsFolder
 > << "/private/var/db/netinfo" >>
 >         skip: .
 > << "/nsr/logs" >>
 >         logasm: .
 > << "/private/var" >>
 >         logasm: .
 > << "/private/var/vm" >>
 >         swapasm: .
 > << /Volumes >>
 >         skip: .
 > << /Network/afs >>
 >         skip: .
 > << /afs >>
 >         skip: .
 >
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