Hello Russell,

Terry was right about directive on NDMP. Aslo, if you want to breakup into
two diffrent jobs inyour case is NOT work. You need two vol..

ie vol/vol0 and vol/vol1 then it will work.

ALso you would be able to setup backup jobs at them same time, but in
different vol.

Hopes that help.

Vinh


> Hi Russell
>
> I believe that NetWorker directives are NOT supported for NDMP backups.
> I've just searched several NetWorker manuals, and can't confirm this,
> but I believe it is so.
>
> What you might want to try is seeing if your NetApp filer supports some
> NDMP environment variables that might accomplish the same idea (maybe an
> 'exclude' or 'include').  NDMP environment variables are entered in the
> NetWorker client resource in the 'Application Information' field.
>
> Hope this helps!
> tl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vale, Russell [mailto:Russell.Vale AT MESSIER-DOWTY DOT ORG]
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] NDMP and Directives not working
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running networker v6.1.1. build 238 on Sun Solaris. We are doing
> NDMP backups to a Netapps Filer which has a Storagetek L180 jukebox SCSI
> attached to it with 4 internal DLT 8000's. Backups are going fine so
> far. At the moment we are backing up all the data as 1 client job - it
> takes 12-13 hours.
>
> We would like to be able to split it into smaller chunks so we can
> backup two streams/clients to 2 DLT's at the same time. Each chunk is
> about 150-200Gb in size so potentially we will be able to reduce the
> backup window to 7-8 hours hopefully.
>
> We have two clients set up. One should back up /vol/vol0/tech1-data  and
> the other one should backup /vol/vol0. This 2nd client has a directive
> set that skips all files and sub-directories under /vol/vol0/tech1-data.
>
> What actually happens is that the first backup backs up about 200Gb as
> we expect it to. The 2nd client backs up the whole of /vol/vol0
> including the /vol/vol0/tech1-data area we have asked it to exclude.
> This means we are backing up an extra 150Gb we don't need to and the
> backups are running for longer than we want them to.
>
> I am using directives to exclude directories on the actual Sun server
> and they work OK so I know I have the syntax correct.
>
> I have setup a seperate test client with some smaller directories/files
> and the problem with directives is replicated. I have also tried using
> .nsr files with a skip exclusion and this doesn't work either.
>
> Is there something special I need to do because the client is an NDMP
> device. I was wondering that because the Netapps Filer does a snapshot
> when it starts running the backup the directive is failing because the
> actual path being backed up is something like
> /vol/vol0/.snapshot-for-backup.396
>
> Any suggestions you have would be great. I'm quickly running out of
> ideas to fix this problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Russell Vale
> russell.vale AT messier-dowty DOT org
>

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