I don't know if its a bug but thats normal "DOS" behavior.
Windows never got away from that beast.
D: is whatever you last "CD" was on that device.

-Jim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim McMurphy [mailto:Tim.McMurphy AT telus DOT com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 7:49 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NB 3.4 bug on WinNT/2K file lists
> 
> 
> 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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