I've finally confirmed that the NEW_STREAM directive does
indeed work in an AFS backup policy if it is the first line
of the filelist.

One of the reasons why I had thought that the directive did
not work with AFS policies was that NetBackup executes an
AFS volume listing command and redirects the output to
/usr/openv/netbackup/listvol.  I thought that the backup
actually needed the listvol file for each stream's filelist and that
each "New Stream" was wiping it out.

It's very possible that NetBackup actually does overwrite the
listvol file with each NEW_STREAM, but the file doesn't appear
to be necessary for the actual backup of the AFS volumes.


On Fri, 23 May 2003 scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:18:07 -0500
> From: scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com
> To: Kathryn Hemness <kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu>
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] AFS Backups and the NEW_STREAM directive
>
> you said "NetBackup backs up the very first "stream" which was not preceded 
> by the
> NEW_STREAM directive".
>
> If manually specifying how the streams will be broken up, you must start
> the file list with the NEW_STREAM directive.  If you do not, I believe
> this is the behavior you'll see.
>
> wrong:
> /export
> NEW_STREAM
> /var
> /tmp
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> correct:
> NEW_STREAM
> /export
> NEW_STREAM
> /var
> /tmp
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>
> - Scott
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> Kathryn Hemness <kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu>
> Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> 05/22/2003 08:54 AM
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>         To:     veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>         cc:
>         Subject:        [Veritas-bu] AFS Backups and the NEW_STREAM directive
>
>
> Greetings --
>
> I've just discovered that NetBackup (probably all versions)
> does not follow the NEW_STREAM directive for AFS backups.
> No errors are indicated, but only the first "stream" specified
> in  the policy is ever backed up.
>
> I've got an AFS backup  policy with Multiple Streams enabled and the file
> list
> separated by the NEW_STREAM directive.  NetBackup backs up
> the very first "stream" which was not preceded by the NEW_STREAM
> directive.
>
> NetBackup does not complain about the NEW_STREAM directive, it just
> thinks it's finished.  The documentation for AFS backups describes 2
> specific directives for AFS backups (CREATE_BACKUP_VOLUMES and
> SKIP_SMALL_VOLUMES), but does not mention anything about the NEW_STREAM
> directive not working for AFS backups or the fact that NetBackup
> will not complain about its use in an AFS policy.
>
> --Kathy
> kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu
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--Kathy
kfhemness AT ucdavis DOT edu