The question comes down to just how are you backing up the cluster.

There are 4 server names involved here.

A is a physical server  - with physical drive C
B is a physical server  - with physical drive C

Then you have VA - a virtual server - you have some resources assigned to this 
virtual server name.
You most likely also have VB - a virtual server - of you which you may or may 
not have resources assigned to.

Resources - these are the drives that can fail over from one to server to 
another.  These look to be Drives E and G.

So if drives E and G normally are on B and you set up a policy to backup B:E\ 
and B:G\ everything is good until it fails over and E and G are now on A.  ( 
which may be why when you boot and mess with it, it eventually lands back on B 
and the backups work.

What you need to do is find the VA or VB name of the virtual server that the 
resources E and G belong to.

Then Set up a policy to backup VA:E\ and VA:G\
While keeping a policy to backup A:C\ and B:C\


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Ugh...ok I forgot that this isn't on a san anymore.  They are physical drives 
now.  But that has been that way for a while and the problem just started 6 
months ago.

Also, sometimes if I mess around with the client (failover / reboot clusters) I 
can get it to do 1 good backup.



Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Are you sure they're clustered drives on the virtual host rather than
> local drives that just happen to be mounted on the active physical node
> of the cluster?   
> 
> Perhaps it stopped working due to a failover 6 months ago when somehow
> they got remounted on the physical node rather than the virtual host?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Jonathan
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> 
> What do your client list and backup selections look like? Why did you
> select cross mount points, are you using NTFS mount points?
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
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> 
> I have Netbackup 6.5.5, windows master server, windows 2003 client.
> 
> Here is the set up
> 
> 2 cluster nodes we will call a & b.
> 
> A has a SAN share of F
> B has 2 SAN Shares labeled drive E and G.
> E:\blah\ and G:\blah2\ are set up as shares in the clusters.
> 
> For some reason when I do backups I'm getting a successful result
> however it is only backing up the top level directory on the cluster
> shares (blah and blah2).
> 
> I have Cross point mounts checked already and it still isn't working.  
> 
> Also this has just started happening about 6 months ago.  Nothing with
> the server has changed and it was working before then.
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