Re: [Veritas-bu] What are your thoughts on filesystem monitoring?

Funny you should mention the excludes approach. That is exactly what we are planning to do.
Too bad you can't do from the GUI like you can on Windows clients.
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In our organization we have a hole in the process between our unix and backup teams. We use includes vs. excludes for our misc. filesystem type backups. The Unix team rarely tells us when they add a new filesystem on a server. At current we have left it at a "If you don't tell us we don't know about it" but that is neither proactive nor productive. One of the members of our backup team that was formerly a member of the storage team has a script in place that sends him an email whenever a filesystem is added to a Unix server. His suggestion is that we take the initiative and add these filesystems to the backups whenever a new one comes in. My thought is while that is great perhaps its time to move to an "excludes" type of system, granted its a manual effort across hundreds of Unix servers and we will probably have to manage the excludes in many the same ways... Thoughts? Am I making sense? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by MichaelPishnery AT eaton DOT com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to abuse AT backupcentral DOT com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT eduhttp://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

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