> Another question I have is in regard to the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive:
> 
> It seems that when I do a backup with the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive 
> selected, I am getting redundant backups. What I mean is when I do a 
> full backup, each mount point gets backed up, and then when it backs 
> up / (root) partition - it goes through and backs up all of the 
> subdirectories under root also - in other words - all of my mount 
> points - the entire file system gets backed up - twice in one full 
> backup.
> 
> How can I prevent this? I don't want to have to manually tell it 
> which directories to backup (never had to with Legato Networker).

Networker never crosses mount points, but Netbackup may.  In the
settings for the class, there should be a checkbox for "Cross mount
points".  Just uncheck that whenever you use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES.

> My last question is this: When I do a restore - it seems to read 
> through the entire 50 gig tape in order to find the files that were 
> selected to restore. With Legato Networker, the index files kept 
> track of the position of the files on the tape and it would find and 
> restore them very quickly (in 5 minutes or less usually). I tried 
> restoring a few small files (200 K or so total) and it took about an 
> hour for it to scan through the entire tape before it could find the 
> files and restore them. Surely I must be doing something wrong. I 
> have two catalog locations selected - one is the first tape in my 
> library, and alternately a directory on my master server's hard disk.

I've seen that behavior in "BudTool" and some other programs before.  In
every case, it was on a Solaris machine with a DLT*000 drive, and the
st.conf file was screwed up.  Once the file was fixed, the the drive was
able to seek directly rather than having to "read" to position. 

I don't know any way to modify the seek behavior in either Netbackup or
Networker, so I'd first supsect the OS settings rather than the app in
this case.



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