I think somebody posted a method to get all the directories in a file
system.

If I remember correctly they had two client instances.

One had all the directories explicitly stated


E:\dir
E:\dir2
E:\dirx


The second client instance had the saveset ALL but, had a directive to
skip the directories that were explicitly spelled out in the first
client.

This allowed you to spilt the filesystem into streams but also not miss
any new directories.

Another option might be to specify the save set as \\.\physicaldiskx  

There was and exchange between me and somebody (Thierry I think) a year
or two ago about this.  There are some serious problems with doing this
when Restore time comes.

You can only do fulls since you are basically dumping the file system.
You can only restore the whole disk back to the same drive letter no
restoring one or two files etc.

This will allow you to kind of do a dump of the NTFS partition.  When I
tried it was very fast.  IT is sort of a poor man's SnapImage.


Brian


   

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Dewhirst, Rob
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:57 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Slow Win2k backup with lots of files

> Rob,
> Could you write a script that updates the client record of this 
> machine (say once an hour), with the main folders. This would allow 
> you to create your saveset streams, without user intervention ?

I really thought I had a firm grasp of most networker functions, but I
don't understand which client record you mean.  

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