> >Is your saveset "All" ?  All really means ALL: DVD's, audio CD's, Zip dis
 > ks
 > >etc....

 > In my experience, that's not how All works on UNIX platforms.
 > All doesn't back up /proc, it doesn't back up NFS volumes, and it
 > doesn't back up automatically mounted CDs (assuming ISO filesystem) or
 > DVDs (DVD fs) on other platforms.
 >
 > It *would* back up zip disks, assuming that the zip disk has a filesystem
 > that is native for the platform.

Same goes for AFS: most Unix NetWorker clients "know" to skip /afs,
but the OSX NetWorker client does *not* skip /afs.  (One of my
first OSX backups shred through a magazine of tapes backing up
/afs--a global file space!!)

I've seen the "problem" with iPods too--NetWorker will gladly back
them up.

It appears that OSX mounts almost all non-harddrive file systems
under "/Volumes" so the directive that follows my sig should do
the trick.  (This should be verified for DVDs--I only tested audio
CDs, data CDs and my iPod.)

steve
- - -
systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin


<< "/" >>
        skip: Desktop\ DB
        skip: Desktop\ DF
        +skip: .DS_Store
        skip: cores
        skip: VM_Storage
        skip: TheVolumeSettingsFolder
<< "/private/var/db/netinfo" >>
        skip: .
<< "/nsr/logs" >>
        logasm: .
<< "/private/var" >>
        logasm: .
<< "/private/var/vm" >>
        swapasm: .
<< /Volumes >>
        skip: .
<< /Network/afs >>
        skip: .
<< /afs >>
        skip: .

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