Paul
I did reply to you already... See my response

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Keating [mailto:pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca] 
Sent: 12 July 2006 13:38
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] changing backup selection in a policy


My method is an artifact of a workaround for a 5.0MP3 bug in which using the
"all_local_drives" directive could cause data loss. A workaround was to
explicitly specify drive letters....that's gonna go away soon.

You're right, specifying a drive letter that doesn't exist is fine, as long
as another specified drive letter does exist, except when using
multistreaming as the stream for the non-existant drive letter will fail
with 71.

However, my question was whether adding the drive letter in the list will
"reset" the policy (for lack of a better term to describe the behaviour we
all know and love.)

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com]
> Sent: July 12, 2006 8:34 AM
> To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] changing backup selection in a policy
> 
> 
> I generally use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and exclude things I don't want to 
> backups.  This sort of covers me incase an enthusiastic admin adds 
> some storage and forgets to tell me about it.  That said, I have a few
> policies like this, mostly backing up Oracle Archive Files 
> (don't ask.)
> If you select E: but E: doesn't exist on a client, it skips it.  Worst
> case scenario you might end up with an error 71 - no files on the list
> exist, but I think only if you are multistreaming.  You'll 
> have to check
> that part out, but generally speaking your method is fine and in
> production here.
> 
> -Jonathan

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