>>> 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?

My memory is a little hazy, but from what I recall, I noticed the SMB
problem first in NetWorker 6.1.1. I successfully got an RFE implemented to
pull it out of 6.1.2, but it got put back into 6.1.3. Despite my arguments,
it was decided that SMB wasn't NFS and therefore wasn't in the same category
:(

I noticed Maarten still experiences it in 7.3.x; that doesn't surprise me at
all.

Cheers,

Preston.

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