On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:18:01PM -0000, Joe Lyons wrote:
> Thanks for this info.  As the /u03 is a mount point on the client
> machine I have placed my .nsr file into the /u03 filesystem and it now
> reads..
> $ pwd
> /u03
> $ cat .nsr
> skip: *
> 
> Does this look sensible ?

Location inspecific directive files always give me the willies.  I
prefer to hardcode a path into them

---CUT---
<< "/u03" >>
  +skip: * .* *.*
---CUT---

That way, if it gets copied somewhere else, it doesn't potentially not
backup something that should be.  IIRC, if that's in the wrong path (say
you put it under /etc), since it's not in the right place in the tree,
it will generate an error message, but it will still backup everything
in /etc.

The downside to that approach is that every directive file needs to be
tailored for its environment.  Good from the backups admin perspective,
but bad from the user support perspective where a small, simple file
would be able to be used anywhere.  I still think it's worth it.

Being able to exclude filesystems from the saveset list (without having
to muck with directives,) has been an RFE with Networker for a long
time.

Dave

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