WEAVER, Simon wrote:
> Dave
> Hmmmm sounds complicated, but looking at the SysAdmin guide, you may be best
> to specify the drives that WANT to be backed up within your current policy
> (or a new policy, depending on what your overall goal is).
>
> Now, reading this it sounds like you specify the file extension (ie: *.bat)
> that need to be backed up, but EXCLUDE the root drive letters - which I
> guess in your case maybe C:\, E:\
>
> Ok now im confused reading this :-(( But it sounds like it MAY work,
> although being totally honest, never tried it!!
>
> I would suggest setting up a TEST POLICY and see if it works out perhaps?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Markham [mailto:dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net] 
> Sent: 13 March 2006 13:40
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] exclude, include query
>
>
> Guys im mailing on behalf of a colleague who works on the windows side of
> the fence. He asked me this question about netbackup but i wasnt too sure on
> how it would behave.
>
> He basically wants to backup *.trk and *.bak ( i think cant remember ) on a
> couple few drives. Now he cant put m:\*.trk and m:\*.bak because that will
> just backup those files in the root of m:\  right?
>
> He has ought about doing this :-  put in the policy file list *.trk and
> *.bak hoping this will backup all instances no matter what directory or
> mount point. Then in the exclude_list put ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and in the
> include_list put m:\ n:\
>
> Hes hoping this will backup *.trk anywhere under m:\ and n:\
>
> Has anyone any idea if this will work or if the include_list overrides the
> policy file lists and everything under m:\ will be backed up?
>
> Cheers
> Dave
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I think problem with putting m:\*.bak it will only backup files matching
*.bak within the root of m: If i want m:\something\somethingelse\*.bak
it wont be captured.

Bit of strange request i know.

It seems to have worked putting all_local_drives in and then excludeing
*.* and including *.bak but i can think this will have a performance hit.

The issue is we dont know what partitions have the *.bak files on it as
they are san attached volumes and the DB guys could put them anywhere.
Need a policy to to try and capture them without specifying too much.

Dave