On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:25:25PM -0700, Werth, Dave wrote:
> We backup the os filesystems to disk but skip the Oracle dbf files using
> directives in .nsr files.  Once a month (this Friday in fact) we shut
> down Oracle and using a shell script rename the .nsr files so they're
> ignored by Networker and backup everything cold (at the same time we're
> doing that with the Exchange server and several SQL Servers as well).

An alternative to moving the files around might be to run with the
backup command 'save -i'.  '-i' tells it to ignore .nsr files.  I've
never tried this, but it seems like it might be a bit cleaner method.

-- 
Darren

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