Pat,
The Mac book is plain wrong. The DOMAIN option works the same on all
platforms - if ALL-LOCAL is specified, then only your local hard disks are
backed up. This means CD-ROMs, Zips, AppleShare volumes, etc will NOT be
backed up - they are not considered "local". This is the behaviour you
want.
I don't know why the Mac book is incorrect - the other platforms have it
documented correctly (at least the ones I checked). I will inform our
information development folks about the misprint.
Cheers,
Brett
>Pat,
>
>I'm surprised the book says that. This is actually the way the Mac client
>was originally implemented when it first came out, and a bunch of folks
>complained. IBM (Brett) then changed it so that ALL-LOCAL meant all local
>volumes that were hard drives. Specifically, diskettes, network
>(Appleshare) volumes, and CD-ROM drives were excluded. I would expect ADSM
>to continue to work this way in V3, tho I have not verified it. Perhaps
>the documentation never got updated when Brett made the change? Anyway, on
>this particular thing I would not take what the book says as gospel, but
>rather try it out to see how it really works. If anyone in ADSM Pubs is
>listening, perhaps they can also check and update the docs.
>
>..Paul
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>At 01:56 PM 2/10/99 +22300819, you wrote:
>>I'm not sure you're correct. The Mac "Using the Client" book
>>(1/99 edition) says, under "domain" (pg 62):
>>
>> all-local
>> Backs up all local volumes. This is the default.
>> All CD-ROM drives, diskette drives, and network volumes are also
>> included.
>>
>>Which would seem to indicate that the default is, in fact, "all".
>>
>>Perhaps the book is wrong?
>>
>>Pat Wilson
>>paw AT dartmouth DOT edu
>>
>>
>>Paul Zarnowski <vkm AT CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL DOT EDU> writes:
>>> Pat; The default DOMAIN is "ALL-LOCAL". This is used by the ADSM
>>> Scheduler when deciding what should be backed up. ALL-LOCAL means all
>>> local, unmountable, hard disk volumes. I.e., not floppies, not CDROM, not
>>> network volumes. The DOMAIN does not prevent users from backing up
>>> whatever they want to - manually. But, it does help if you can train your
>>> users to use the Scheduler to run their backups.
>>>
>>> ..Paul
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