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I made a note some time ago to the famous "debby" if i'm not mistaken,
that it would be a grteat asset if networker could report on the .nsr or
nsr.cfg (on windows) it saw during the last backup. It would be a great
help for all administrators. I am anyway a fervent admirer of tools that
can somehow auto-document themselves.

Maarten

Curtis Preston wrote:
> FWIW, I think that .nsr files are evil.   Admins tend to forget they're
> there, or a replacement admin doesn't know where they are.  Then you get
> unexpected backup results that you only notice when you do a restore.
> 
> In contrast, specifying directives on the server, it's all in one place.
> (.nsr files can be anywhere)
> 
> I'm pretty sure I have a blog entry about this where I probably go into
> further detail:
> http://www.backupcentral.com
> 
> ---
> W. Curtis Preston
> Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
> VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of A Darren Dunham
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 11:32 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] skipping files in a directory
> 
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:16:51PM -0500, Francis Swasey wrote:
>> On 11/9/07 1:50 PM, Dave Martini 1 wrote:
>>> If I want to skip the contents of a directory and everything in and 
>>> below that
>>> directory from getting backed up on Unix do I create a .nsr file with
> 
>>> this syntax?
>>>
>>> +skip:*
>> Is that one line all you had in the .nsr file?  It requires the 
>> directory be specified (yes, the docs on this subject suck):
>>
>> << ./ >>
>>      +skip: *
> 
> When the directive is in a .nsr file, the directory is not specified.
> The directory is implied from the location.
> 
> When the directive is applied at the NSR server to a client, then the
> directories for the effect are specified.
> 
> I've never tried specifying a directory in a .nsr file.  I don't know if
> it is read or just ignored.
> 
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