Re: [Networker] Backing up servers with DFS

It just hangs...  The VSS system sets run OK, then it get's to the actual
volumes, C, D, & E and they never kick off - they just sit their waiting to
run...

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:45 AM, STANLEY R. HORWITZ <stan AT temple DOT edu> 
wrote:

>
> On 02 1, 2010, at 9:34 AM, John Brekelbaum wrote:
>
> > I have 7.5.1 on Windows 2003...
> > Is there any special save commands that have to be used - I have either
> used "all" or "e:\" etc...
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:31 AM, STANLEY R. HORWITZ <stan AT temple DOT edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 02 1, 2010, at 9:00 AM, John Brekelbaum wrote:
> >
> > > Any tricks to backing up a windows 2008 server (not R2) with volumes
> that
> > > participate in DFS.  Save set all will get all the VSS system savesets
> but
> > > it just hangs when trying to backup the drive letters.  Nothing helpful
> in
> > > daemon.raw.  Also tried various credentials so does not look to be a
> > > permissions issue.  Anyone else had problems backing up DFS servers?
>  Thanks
> > > for any advice...
> >
> > Which NetWorker version are you using? I know that with NetWorker 7.4.4,
> DFS backups work, but you only get the ability to recover the entire DFS
> volume, not individual items within that volume.
>
> As I recall, you need to specify the DFS volume explicitly in the client's
> saveset list, but I didn't need to include any special save commands. Now
> that I think about it, I had a lot of trouble with this initially, to the
> point where we had a case open with EMC on this issue for several months
> before it was resolved. We did get it to work, but it was entirely trial and
> error on the client side, with help from EMC. What problem exactly are you
> having?

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