I'll go out on a limb here ( I'm not up to speed on NDMP ) and say I don't 
think directives will work. 
They are normally interpreted by uasm and NDMP backups are done by whatever the 
NAS filer uses 
(dump and tar being quite common ).
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:59:56 -0500, dmitri <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL 
DOT COM> wrote:

>NW7.4.4 on Sparc Solaris10, DL3D 3000 VTL
>
>running NDMP over DSA (NetApp), trying to add a global directive to exclude a 
>volume from 
NDMP backup, with no apparent luck.  I was wondering if it's any different then 
regular 
nsr_directive?
>
>I was trying the following forms:
>
>
><</vol/dir>>
>&nbsp; +skip&#58; .?* *
>&nbsp;
>&nbsp; &nbsp;OR
><</vol>>
>skip&#58; dir
>
>&nbsp; &nbsp;OR
><</>>
>skip&#58; /vol/dir
>
>None of those work
>
>Can anybody please shed some light to my dilemma?
>
>TIA
>dmitri
>
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