Ergo, the software is flawed. Since most of the other products out there
contain server side exclude lists and these exclude lists are queried prior
to the backups being scheduled, the 120 extraneous filesystem job entries of
32KB will never appear.
Katherine Greenberg
860.636.6724
-----Original Message-----
From: Kathryn Hemness [mailto:kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 1:55 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 4.5 Failing to recognize exclude_list on Sol
Kate --
I find your logic a bit flawed. NetBackup puts job in the scheduler queue
right when the backup window opens, even before contacting the client
system. Since the exclude_list is on the client, the master server doesn't
even know of its existence until the job actually starts. Having to make
contact with the client prior to queuing a job would introduce lots of
delays, which could be horrendous if there were hundreds of clients in a
backup enterprise.
> Message: 10
> From: "Greenberg, Katherine A" <GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com>
> To: "'fperetmere AT adic DOT com'" <fperetmere AT adic DOT com>,
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU 4.5 Failing to recognize exclude_list on Sol
> aris
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:05:52 -0400
>
> Thanks!
>
> I realized it was (more or less) me being stupid and VERITAS writing
> crappy software...
>
> Here's what I found:
>
> Create the /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/bpbkar directory and every file
> system creates a job, but after each job is created it checks against
> the Exclude list to determine if that needs to be backed up or not. I
> was getting confused b/c on this particular system the Exclude list
> has about 120 filesystems in it and the jobs were still getting
> *generated*. (It's an ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES variable being passed in the
> Policy)
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to have Scheduler look to an exclude list
> before it generates the job list for a particular system?!?!?!?!
>
> As always, more fun through NetBackup :)
>
> ~Kate
>
--Kathy
kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu
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