Networker

Re: [Networker] Too(?) much data in incremental savesets

2003-07-07 11:53:56
Subject: Re: [Networker] Too(?) much data in incremental savesets
From: Oscar Olsson <spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT SE>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:53:48 +0200
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 Phillip_Young AT i2 DOT com wrote:

> You can set the system environment variable "NSR_AVOID_ARCHIVE" to a
> non-null value on win2k and winNT client systems.  This requires a reboot
> of the client system but will cause NetWorker to ignore the archive bit's
> value when determining whether a file has changed in some way other than
> modtime and checksum.  This configuration change has saved us *hundreds* of
> GB of needless backup every night while providing the necessary coverage.

I guess this is good for NT/W2K clients, but is there anything similar for
NetApp filers and the NDMP backups?

//Oscar - will probably try this on a client or two

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