> Another question I have is in regard to the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive:
>
> It seems that when I do a backup with the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive
> selected, I am getting redundant backups. What I mean is when I do a
> full backup, each mount point gets backed up, and then when it backs
> up / (root) partition - it goes through and backs up all of the
> subdirectories under root also - in other words - all of my mount
> points - the entire file system gets backed up - twice in one full
> backup.
>
> How can I prevent this? I don't want to have to manually tell it
> which directories to backup (never had to with Legato Networker).
Networker never crosses mount points, but Netbackup may. In the
settings for the class, there should be a checkbox for "Cross mount
points". Just uncheck that whenever you use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES.
> My last question is this: When I do a restore - it seems to read
> through the entire 50 gig tape in order to find the files that were
> selected to restore. With Legato Networker, the index files kept
> track of the position of the files on the tape and it would find and
> restore them very quickly (in 5 minutes or less usually). I tried
> restoring a few small files (200 K or so total) and it took about an
> hour for it to scan through the entire tape before it could find the
> files and restore them. Surely I must be doing something wrong. I
> have two catalog locations selected - one is the first tape in my
> library, and alternately a directory on my master server's hard disk.
I've seen that behavior in "BudTool" and some other programs before. In
every case, it was on a Solaris machine with a DLT*000 drive, and the
st.conf file was screwed up. Once the file was fixed, the the drive was
able to seek directly rather than having to "read" to position.
I don't know any way to modify the seek behavior in either Netbackup or
Networker, so I'd first supsect the OS settings rather than the app in
this case.
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Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
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