It was the 1024 character limitation of UNIX that bit us. Since a server-side
directive is spelled out in all it's gory details as a switch on the command
line 'save' executable, if the directive is too long it will cause the save
command to be over the 1024 char limit. However, we did find a partial work
around thru judicious use of the "forget" function of the directives. We had
some large oracle instances where we couldn't list out every single filesystem
we wanted to skip (null actually), and we couldn't skip just /oracle because of
the data they did want to capture under that path. I've appended the pertinent
sections (based off Unix Standard directive, fyi) to the bottom of my response.
As for client side directives, since they are read on the fly by the save
process, they never get dumped to command line and therefore never exceed any
type of character limit.
<< /oracle/g01 >>
+null: .?* *
<< /oracle/g01/3rdparty >>
forget
<< /oracle/g01/admin >>
forget
<< /oracle/g01/software >>
forget
NOTE: like all directives, "forget" does just this directory....."+forget"
applies to the sub dirs as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of George Sinclair
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:19 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Max size for server side directives?
Hi,
Is there a size limit for server side directives? I thought I heard something
about this back in 6.x, or maybe 5.x.
I never knew what the limit was (number of lines, total number of characters,
or what). We're using 7.2.2 now.
I seem to recall having some issues with this back in 6.x, maybe just once, and
I think breaking it down into
2 directives fixed it, but my memory is very sketchy on that. In general, I
don't recall bumping up against this problem except maybe once, and maybe
something else was causing the problem, and it wasn't the directive after all.
I may never know.
It's made me kind of paranoid ever since so I've used client side directives
many times to avoid making the ones on the server too long, but there could be
a size limit for the client side directives, too?
Anybody have the scoop on this?
George
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