That's really interesting, Darren.  I never thought about this "problem" 
created by changing directives.  Always nice to learn something.

For what it's worth, I hate .nsr files.  I can't edit them from the backup 
server, and I think they create surprises for later generations of backup 
admins, and you can accomplish the same thing by using server-side directives.  

I was recently bitten by user-level bp.conf files in a customer's environment.  
(That's a NetBackup thing, but the concept is the same.)

---
W. Curtis Preston, Author of Backup & Recovery and Using SANs and NAS
VP Data Protection
GlassHouse Technologies


-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Darren Dunham
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:09 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] About .nsr local directive..

> Today¡¦  I move that filename to .nsr_old for backup all *.dbf files.
> 
> But.. All of *.bdf files are not backed up. 
> 
> It means .nsr_old directive file are working all the same.. 

Were the files changed between the backups?  The new 'save' process
won't know that the files are missing from the backup due to directives.
It'll just look at the timestamp.

If you change directives to make things less restrictive, you probably
want to run a full backup.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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