in windows, the local directive file is called NSR.DIR 

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Tim Mooney
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 4:12 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Networker Exclude List

In regard to: [Networker] Networker Exclude List, Joe Lyons said (at
1:19pm...:

> I'm a noob to networker coming from a netbackup environment.

Welcome!

> I would like to exclude file and directories on various unix clients.
In
> the NB world I would simply create an exclude list on the client in
the
> appropriate directory. With networker there are standard directives
but I
> dont want these excludes to be universal excludes but specific to
certain
> clients.

You have two options:

- if you want your lists of what gets skipped or backed up specially to
   be stored on the backup server, you create new directives, possibly
one
   for each client, using the tools on the server.  You then assign the
   directive to the client.  You can do this using a GUI (I assume that
   option is available in the new Java GUI with 7.3.x, I haven't looked
   very closely at it yet) or with the nsradmin command.

   If you do it this way, the new directives are stored in resource
format,
   somewhere under /nsr/res/nsrdb.  You can use nsradmin to dump them to
   to stdout or to a file if you want.  Taking the file that the GUI
   creates and pulling out just the directive is a good way to get
started
   writing directives for the second option.

- if you want the list of skipped/special stuff stored on the client
   itself, you create a file named .nsr (for UNIX/Linux, for Windows or
   NetWare it's called something different that escapes me at the
moment)
   and put the same kind of directive information into that file.  With
   .nsr files, you can have multiple files on the client if you want, or
   you can consolidate the directives into a .nsr file that's higher up
on
   the filesystem.

   See the man pages for nsr(5) and nsr_directive(5), and search the
   archives for this list for "directive"

PS: There are lots of components to NetWorker, but as a NetWorker admin
the non-GUI commands you will want to familiarize yourself with the most
are probably

        nsradmin
        nsrjb
        mminfo

You'll eventually want to know a lot more than that, but those are the
"big 3" in many environments.

Tim
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