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Re: [Networker] Browsing wildcard backups not on root level

2005-09-01 13:32:42
Subject: Re: [Networker] Browsing wildcard backups not on root level
From: Itzik Meirson <imeirson AT MBI.CO DOT IL>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:32:06 +0300
I the directive used to skip the numbered files use the "null" directive
instead of the "skip" one.
The difference is that in this case the complete directory trees will be
saved while the actual data will be skipped.
Itzik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Hernandez, Luis
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 19:26
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Browsing wildcard backups not on root level
> 
> I have a client with a 2TB NTFS file system that is 
> constantly changing. The naming convention of the files is 
> very inconsistent in that the names are mostly a sequence of 
> numbers and some files have normal names. As a result of this 
> scenario, we have configured the client resources with 
> wildcards such as D:\Largefilesystem\1*.* , ~\2*.*  etc. and 
> another client resource configured to backup everything else 
> (word named files)
>  
> The problem comes when we try to restore. If you just choose 
> last nights backup, you can browse the word named files but 
> not the number named files. In order to browse the number 
> files (backed up with wildcards) you have to know the exact 
> time the backup completed and use that iformation to change 
> the browse time on the legato client to one minute after the 
> backup completed.  
>  
> Is there any way to get this so that you can browse 
> absolutely everything that was backed up last night on that 
> filesystem? Legato has claimed that wildcards anywhere other 
> than at the root level is not supported. I am just looking to 
> see if anyone knows anything that can be done, supported or 
> not, to resolve this situation, 
>  
> If you need more details just ask me and I will get it for you.
>  
> Thanks in advanced for any help!
>  
> Lou
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