EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on
09/29/2009 12:32:07 PM:
> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Directive question - include only
certain...:
>
> > Oh, I do exclude them from the backup; that's not the problem. The
problem
> > is that the files are still there, in the source folders. But only the
> > user accounts have access to the folder, so I can't just trawl through
> > them, and see who has been hoarding music, etc. A filesystem search
> > doesn't find them, since I'm not using an account that has access to
those
> > folders.
> >
> > But I figured if I did one backup without those skip directives, and
then
> > queried the saveset, I could get a list of how much music they had.
(and
> > then I could just immediately re-cycle those tapes). I wanted to only
> > backup the media, because that would be a much smaller backup, than
the
> > 900G of full user files.
>
> So why don't you change your default directives to use "+null: *.mp3"
etc,
> instead of +skip? It sounds like that would be most of what you want.
> Using null would not back up any of the file contents but you would
> get index entries for them, so you can easily use nsrinfo to report on
> them.
It never occurred to me. Guess that aspect of it never clicked. I will try
that tonight, and see what transpires.
Thanks for pointing that out!
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