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sounds familliar, we run 7.3.1 and have the same issue on linux, we use
fstab mounted cifs filesystems from windows also, recenly saw it in a
savegroup and had to put manual skips on the filesystem.

Maarten

Davina Treiber wrote:
> Preston de Guise wrote:
>> On 12/12/07 12:42 PM, "Tim Mooney" <Tim.Mooney AT NDSU DOT EDU> wrote:
>>
>>> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Ignore NFS mounts, Alex Alexiou said (at...:
>>>
>>>> That's the problem; if we just say ALL, then Networker assumes you mean
>>>> everything in fstab, including all NFS mounts.
>>> That's contrary to how the product has always worked, and contrary to
>>> the (vague) documentation.  What version of the client software are you
>>> using?  What version of the server software?
>> Perhaps some bright spark has decided that what is Good for SMB is good for
>> all.
>>
>> I had an issue some time ago where a customer mounted approximately 2TB of
>> fileserver data from a Windows server onto a Linux server, and because they
>> wanted this mounted all the time, they added the SMB mounts to /etc/fstab on
>> Linux. Unfortunately, NetWorker decided they weren't NFS and started backing
>> them up.
>>
>> While I had an RFE successfully raised and completed to take this
>> functionality out (arguing that SMB mounts are no different than NFS mounts
>> as far as whether the data is "local" or not), someone argued a counter-RFE
>> and got it reversed in the next version of NetWorker.
> 
> That is just ridiculous. Someone in EMC needs shooting for that. That
> means that the default behaviour is to backup potentially large
> filesystems multiple times over a network connection. Worse still, it is
> difficult and clumsy to suppress this default behaviour, whereas it is
> quite simple the other way round. What versions are you referring to
> Preston?
> 
>> Since then, NetWorker has always blithely backed up SMB mounts that are in
>> /etc/fstab on Linux.
>>
>> It wouldn't surprise me if more recent versions of NetWorker have done this
>> for NFS :(
> 
> It wouldn't surprise me either but it would severely disappoint me. I
> really hope this hasn't happened. Alex, what version are you using and I
> will add it to my growing list of versions to avoid at all costs.
> 
> It does seem that since Legato became EMC there have been a number of
> poor decisions regarding the development of the product and also
> regarding the way it is packaged.
> 
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