This was from a thread back in 2006.  I've used this method several
places and it works well.   Works on UNIX OSes as well.




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



On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu> wrote:
> In regard to: Re: [Networker] 45M iNode FS backup?, Yaron Zabary said
> (at...:
>
>>  I think that any contemporary major backup software should be able to
>> realize that the file system it is backing up is large (actually this should
>> be done for each directory) and should be able to launch as many parallel
>> threads that are required to make sure that the backup will not crawl.
>
> I totally agree.  Considering that this type of functionality was
> actually a hidden/experimental feature in NetWorker several years ago
> that was later disabled, I'm very disappointed that we still do not have
> this type of capability in NetWorker.
>
> Tim
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