mnttab =)
----- Original Message -----
From: "W. Curtis Preston" <curtis AT backupcentral DOT com>
To: <rob AT worman DOT org>
Cc: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES vs. /(root) and cross mount poi
nts option


> I don't know how valid the tests are unless you use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
> WITHOUT any include or exclude lists.
> You'd need to force it to do the vxfs filesystems first.  I don't know if
> NetBackup parses the mnttab or the vfstab, though.
>
> If they parse the vfstab, you could easily hack it to put the vxfs
> filesystem first in the list.
> If they parse mnttab, you could hack that, but I'd do it on a test system.
;)
>
> Anyone?
>
> At 07:58 AM 8/7/2001 -0700, Rob Worman wrote:
> >the above testing was on an NBU 3.4 system.  Maybe 3.4 doesn't like to
> >have a "*" exclude_list?
> >
> >On an NBU 3.2 system, I tested similarly:
> >test class backs up ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
> >
> >exclude_list contains:
> >*
> >
> >include_list contains:
> >/usr/openv    [vxfs]
> >/opt          [ufs]
> >/var          [ufs]
> >
> >No matter what I did, all filesystems backed up with a status 0.  If I
> >look closely at the db image file, I see that it backed up the vxfs
> >filesystem first and then had no trouble backing up the ufs one.
> >
> >So my skepticism of this problem grows - anyone care to challenge me
> >with their own tests?
>
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