So bprestore is really not a viable command. There are
many times when you will want to restore a particular
filesystem, without trashing all of the filesystems
mounted on it. It appears that the only way to do it
is with the xbp gui. Veritas should acknowledge this
limitation. 





--- Tim McMurphy <Tim.McMurphy AT telus DOT com> wrote:
> I don't know about those but under the X app
> (xbprestore) it was 
> 
> "Restore directories without crossing mount points"
> which is selected by
> default. When you restore / it will not restore /usr
> /whatever if they are
> separate mount points.
> 
> We've used it in reverse here a couple of times. ie.
> clear the checkbox and
> restore / to a new larger disk and it puts /, /usr,
> /opt, /home etc onto a
> single large partition. 
> 
> Handy when you are upgrading systems with 2 gig root
> disks and five 2 gig
> raided data disks to one 36 gig (then mirroring the
> 36 to another 36).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Ritschel
> [mailto:dritschel62 AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:24 PM
> To: Tim McMurphy
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] bprestore NetBackup 4.5
> 
> 
> Is that a bprestorefs option? Or only available in
> the
> Java GUI like in the passed? 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Tim McMurphy <Tim.McMurphy AT telus DOT com> wrote:
> > I thought that was the "cross / don't cross mount
> > points" option during a
> > restore?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Douglas Ritschel
> > [mailto:dritschel62 AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 12:42 PM
> > To: veritas-ng
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] bprestore NetBackup 4.5
> > 
> > 
> > Did Veritas update bprestore in NetBackup 4.5 for
> > Solaris, so that it recognizes filesystem
> boundaries
> > when doing at restore. 
> > 
> > For example, can I tell it to restore /, and not
> > have
> > it restore all of the filesystems under /? Without
> > having to exclude each one. 
> > 
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