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Re: [Networker] Netwroker 7.6 Windows 2003 Folder mounted volumes (not Drive letters) - backing all these volumes up

2011-12-12 02:22:44
Subject: Re: [Networker] Netwroker 7.6 Windows 2003 Folder mounted volumes (not Drive letters) - backing all these volumes up
From: Thierry Faidherbe <thierry.faidherbe AT FOREM DOT BE>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:20:02 +0100
Another nicer solution could be you to write a small perl/powershell/batch
script that list these volumes and then, choose one of the 2 following
options :

1) you manually update using nsradmin the client resource's saveset list
(I am doing such with Solaris and ZFS for my global zones and
excluding fs I do not need a backup) and then you start the networker group
(and by consequence let networker grab backup level and retention
automatically from client's configuration)

or

2) once you have the list of the volume to save,
you start yourself the save cmds specifying pool, retention
to use.

HTH

Thierry

Kind regards - Bien cordialement - Vriendelijke groeten,

Thierry FAIDHERBE
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Objet : [Networker] Netwroker 7.6 Windows 2003 Folder mounted volumes (not
Drive letters) - backing all these volumes up

Recently came-across a situation - where a user/admin using Folder mounted 
disk volumes (rather than Drive letter mapped volumes). For example, the 
following folders have mounted disk-volume each about 30 GB:

D:\OT\LM1 
D:\OT\LM2 
D:\OT\LM3 
D:\OT\OP1
D:\OT\OP2
D:\OT\OP3

Obviously, these weren't getting backed-up along with D:\ drive (only 4 GB 
its own full-size is getting backed-up, but not the above mounted volumes).

A disk-volume mapped to a drive obviously getting backed-up, for example: 
P:\ Q:\ R:\ and S:\ etc all are getting backed-up correctly.

One thing I can think of doing is - enumerating/listing each of these 
folders in my SAVESET list to be backed-up, but haven't tried it yet. 
Unfortunate side affect is - if user/admin created another/new D:\OT\OP4 
mounted-volume, Networker is sure going to miss it, since its not listed 
in Savesets lists to be backed-up.

Thought I've seen an elegant solution, can't search/recall. If you guys 
have a better one please do share.

TiA
Sri



 

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