On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Vandecruys Kris wrote:

>
>Hi Stan,
>
>Perhaps, if the volumes you do want to backup are always the same, it is
>possible to make them be mounted in another location, say a /Volumes2.
>Don't ask me how, i need to fiddle around with OSX myself a bit more, it
>just doesn't strike me as being that implausible.
>
>you could also try creating a /Volumes_Backup and making symlinks to the
>volumes you want to backup, then tell networker to follow symlinks ( -x ?
>need to check ... )
>
>I was curious about something: Does NWR do the same trick with mounted
>..dmg files? I don't have an OSX box on my networker setup to test it
>myself.

That's an excellent question. I will let you know tomorrow. While I
am at it, I will leave a Compact Flash card in the CF card reader
that's connected to my Mac G5 and see if that gets backed up.

Thanks for the idea and the question.

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