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[Networker] Question on null directives?

2009-06-17 15:30:55
Subject: [Networker] Question on null directives?
From: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:25:51 -0400
If you have a null directive in place, and you copy the affected path name/data from host A to host B, and you then put that same directive in place for host B, what will happen when NW runs the first initial level full on that new save set?

Will the fact that it doesn't yet have any index entries for that data still allow it to obey the directive? I can see that it would in the case of the 'skip' directive, but not sure about 'null'. In this case, it never will have any such entries unless you remove it, run the full and then re-add it, so it might not obey the 'null'? Or maybe it will know that it doesn't have any such index entries so there's nothing to maintain in which case it's tantamount to a 'skip'?

Thanks.

George

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