Sorry about that.  It seems it was a false alarm.  After I sent the email, it
seems to have started working . ???!!???

It now does work and if I use the / directory as the root source, it will quite
happily exclude directories even if they are seperate mount points & therefore
treated as seperate save sets.

Thanks for responding :-) & sorry for the waste of time.

B




Pamela.Owen AT acs-inc DOT com on 14/11/2002 10:04:25 AM

To:   NETWORKER AT listmail.temple DOT edu, Brendan.Sandes AT nre.vic.gov DOT au
cc:    (bcc: Brendan Sandes/NRE)

Subject:  RE: [Networker] skip asm in directive



You could create two clients, same group, one has saveset /project/data/DEV,
and one has saveset /project/data/TEST, with different schedules.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan Sandes [mailto:Brendan.Sandes AT NRE.VIC.GOV DOT AU]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:47 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] skip asm in directive


Hi All.

I'm trying to create a directive on the server that will skip a
subdirectory.
The manual says that skip "omits the specified files and directories from
the
backup" so I'm assuming that it acutally does this.

The situation is that we have a partition /project with two large
directories
(DEV and TEST (about 180GB each) that we want to backup on alternating
nights.
E.g. DEV on Monday and TEST on Tuesday etc.  The way to do this seems to be
to
create two client entries with two seperate groups and use different
directives
(would have been nice to have had the data on seperate partitions I agree).
(I
only mention this to illustrate why I cannot have a .nsr directory in the
top
level)

So I have /project/data/DEV and /project/data/TEST

What I tried to do was to create a new directive that would skip the DEV
directory.
I have a seperate group set up.  I created a sepearate client.  Put the
directive name into the client, browse, retention periods, & added the
saveset
of /project

I have tried the following - none of which work.  It always backs up the DEV
directory:

skip :  DEV
-------------------------
+skip: DEV
-------------------------
<< /project >>
skip: DEV
-------------------------
<< /project >>
+skip: DEV
-------------------------
<< "/project" >>
+skip: DEV
-------------------------
<< "/project" >>
+skip: "DEV"
-------------------------


I cannot think of any more ways to try it.  Any suggestions?  Every example
I
can find deals with skipping files.

The other thing is, is it possible to do this from the root level?  I have 5
partitions that are mounted which can all contain these directories and I
don't
want to have to change the directive each time we create or destroy a
partition.

Cheers
Brendan

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