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Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive Multiplexing

2008-07-29 14:23:28
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive Multiplexing
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: Jeremy Finn <jeremy.finn AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:04:07 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jeremy Finn wrote:

> Dean and Justin,
>
> Thank you very much for your replies.
>
> I need to use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES (I think) because there are two clients in my
> policy. Basically the backup runs like this:
>
> 1. - client1: make clones of production file systems
> 2. - client2: mount clones of client1's production file systems
> 3. - client2: back up client1's production file systems to local tape drive
> 4. - client2: back up client1's root volume group over the network.
>
> client1 is only a client, client2 is a client and a media server.
>
> Am I able to specify the pathnames in this configuration, or am I stuck with
> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES?
>
> Thanks again,
> Jeremy

Jeremy,

1. Use two policies.
2. mkdir the same mounts on each server
    (hackish way of doing things, but may be necessary in some cases)
    As long as the paths exist, empty or not, that will eliminate the need
    for using ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES.

Is the multiplexing working properly now?

Justin.

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