Yes this will work - I use something similar to split up user home dirs
which are in a/b/c/d/e so on. not sure, but i have NEW_STREAM at the end as
well. doesn't do any harm. BTW, if you omit the NEW_STREAM at the top, it
will only run backup jobs upto the first NEW_STREAM directive, which can be
nasty if you think the backup ran ok.

regards
mark


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Justin C.
Lloyd
Sent: 18 February 2004 16:15
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Multiple data streams and wildcards


A few weeks ago I created a policy whose file list looked like the
following:

/a/b/x/*.gz
/a/c/x/*.gz
/a/d/x/*.gz
/a/d/e/x/*.gz

The next morning I learned the meaning of Auto-discover Streaming Mode.
  I had set the Allow Multiple Data Streams attribute for the policy but
did not have any NEW_STREAM directives.  This resulted in 1170
single-file jobs.  Lesson learned.

Now, based on my reading of the NBU DC 4.5 Sys Admin's Guide (page 106),
adding NEW_STREAM directives (as shown below), even though there are
wild cards, should cause three streams should be generated.

NEW_STREAM
/a/b/x/*.gz
NEW_STREAM
/a/c/x/*.gz
NEW_STREAM
/a/d/x/*.gz
/a/d/e/x/*.gz

Can anyone confirm this before I go shooting myself in the foot again?

Regards,

Justin


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Justin C. Lloyd
Unix System Administrator
MCI System Technology Solutions
Office 703.886.3219 Vnet 806.3219 Fax 703.886.0132

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