Interesting that "D:" would work! Without a slash the drive letter
designation defaults to its current working directory and that is a Windows
thing not a Veritas one. Sort of like specifying a single dot "." in Unix.

All I can think of is that if you had Veritas installed on the D: drive then
you would get the C:\ but nothing on D: other than the current working
directory (\Veritas or whatever).

-----Original Message-----
From: Fabbro, Andrew P [mailto:Fabbro.Andrew AT cnf DOT com]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:24 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NB 3.4 bug on WinNT/2K file lists


I discovered a charming bug/feature in Netbackup's handling of file lists
for Windows NT/2000.  Some of our Windows clients had this for the file
list:

  C:

In this case, NB backs up only the Netbackup client's directory - i.e., you
are only backing up C:\Veritas or C:\Program Files\Veritas or wherever your
client is installed.  You do not back up anything else on the C drive.
However, when I changed the file list entry to

  C:\

then the entire C: drive was backed up as expected.  This is 100%
reproducable here.  Interestingly, specifying a different drive without the
trailing backslash (e.g., "D:") still results in a normal backup of the
drive.  The problem seems to be unique to the C drive.

The manual does specify the "C:\" syntax, but it's an easy enough mistake to
make, so I'm passing on this discovery for the benefit of the list.

--
Drew Fabbro (fabbro.andrew AT cnf DOT com)
CNF - USG - 503.450.3374
"Don't try to be like Jackie.  This is only one Jackie.  
Study computers instead." -- Jackie Chan

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