Nicole Skyrca wrote:

Hello,

I have two RedHat Enterprise Linux v. 2.4.21 that are setup in a cluster. Each server has local disks for the operating system, and the data is on a shared filesystem that is mounted from the SAN, but this filesystem is only mounted on the "primary" server. Each physical node in the cluster (db-server02a and db-server02b) is configured as a client in Networker, and backs up all savesets. I configured a client for the virutual cluster name (db-server02) and it only backs up the filesystem from the SAN.

The backup schedule is full once a month, incremental the rest of the month. 
Everytime I do a backup of the virtual machine, it does a full backup, even 
when it's scheduled for an incremental. The following is from the logs:

12/05/05 12:04:52 nsrd: savegroup info: db-server02.syr.edu:/mysql: No full backups of this save set were found in the media database; performing a full backup

When I run mminfo, I don't see anything for db-server02, but do I see the entries for the SAN filesystem in db-server02a.

How do I backup the SAN filesystem with the vitual machine name so that it 
doesn't do a full backup every time?

I tried adding the file pathownerignore in the /usr/sbin directory as per the 
pathownerignore man page, but that didn't change the behavior.

A message in the Networker archives that suggested to "put "save -c virtual-name" in the 
Backup Command filed in the Remote tab."  I've never put anything besides "savepnpc" in that 
field, so I don't think I fully understand what it's doing.  Does this work?  Has anyone had problems with it?

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