We use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and "allow multiple streams" everywhere,
regardless of the O/S.

Where there is a database that needs to be backed up seperately, it
will have it's own policy just for that database, on that client, and
the backup selection list might look like :

/opt/oracle
/oradata/db1
/oradata/db2
/oradata/db3

Then, we back up the rest of the client in a more generic "catch all"
policy ... say a policy named "unix_system_prod", which contains many
clients and has ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES in it's selection list.

We setup an exclude list for that particular client, for only the
"unix_system_prod" policy, which contains the entries listed above, so
that we're not backing up the db files twice.

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is a good thing! It means never having to say "Umm...
sorry... we don't have a backup. The Unix guy didn't tell us when he
added that /super_critical mountpoint 3 years ago."


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nathan Kippen <nate.kippen AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> I'm just looking to see what the recommendation out there is for backing up
> unix-based servers.
>
> In the past I've always backed up a unix client using "/" in my selection
> list and using cross all mount points + exclude lists.  As I was browsing
> through the Admin guide I read that ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES could be used on
> unix-based clients as well.
>
> I'm interested to know how people out there backup their unix clients.   We
> use cross all mount points so to make sure that an Admin doesn't create
> something on a client that needs to be backed up that he doesn't tell us
> [backup admins] about.
>
> I'm looking into using the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive with "allow multiple
> streams" so I can stream out my unix clients by filesystem thus getting more
> i/o throughput by having the backups read from multiple physical disks at
> the same time.  ... This opposed to using "/" + NEW_STREAM .. since I don't
> really know what directories are actual filesystems.  (I don't admin the
> majority of the clients I backup.)
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
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