It sounds to me like they need a switch so you can change the behavior
of the "All" saveset specifier so you can set whether it picks up NFS
and/or SMB mounts.

David Werth
Garmin AT, Inc
Salem, Oregon
dave.werth<at>garmin.com

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Davina Treiber
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:48 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Ignore NFS mounts

Preston de Guise wrote:
> On 12/12/07 12:42 PM, "Tim Mooney" <Tim.Mooney AT NDSU DOT EDU> wrote:
> 
>> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Ignore NFS mounts, Alex Alexiou said
(at...:
>>
>>> That's the problem; if we just say ALL, then Networker assumes you
mean
>>> everything in fstab, including all NFS mounts.
>> That's contrary to how the product has always worked, and contrary to
>> the (vague) documentation.  What version of the client software are
you
>> using?  What version of the server software?
> 
> Perhaps some bright spark has decided that what is Good for SMB is
good for
> all.
> 
> I had an issue some time ago where a customer mounted approximately
2TB of
> fileserver data from a Windows server onto a Linux server, and because
they
> wanted this mounted all the time, they added the SMB mounts to
/etc/fstab on
> Linux. Unfortunately, NetWorker decided they weren't NFS and started
backing
> them up.
> 
> While I had an RFE successfully raised and completed to take this
> functionality out (arguing that SMB mounts are no different than NFS
mounts
> as far as whether the data is "local" or not), someone argued a
counter-RFE
> and got it reversed in the next version of NetWorker.

That is just ridiculous. Someone in EMC needs shooting for that. That
means that the default behaviour is to backup potentially large
filesystems multiple times over a network connection. Worse still, it is
difficult and clumsy to suppress this default behaviour, whereas it is
quite simple the other way round. What versions are you referring to
Preston?

> 
> Since then, NetWorker has always blithely backed up SMB mounts that
are in
> /etc/fstab on Linux.
> 
> It wouldn't surprise me if more recent versions of NetWorker have done
this
> for NFS :(

It wouldn't surprise me either but it would severely disappoint me. I
really hope this hasn't happened. Alex, what version are you using and I
will add it to my growing list of versions to avoid at all costs.

It does seem that since Legato became EMC there have been a number of
poor decisions regarding the development of the product and also
regarding the way it is packaged.

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