Hi Michael,
I guess you are right, but in case of saveset set to other than ALL, I would 
think that you probably could not use the "networker recovery CD" to restore 
your full system.

By the way, it's the same with "WSB" for windows server backup, if you select 
"all critical" it would save in some case part of D: etc depending how your 
application is installed.

Marcel 

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De : owner-networker AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU [mailto:owner-networker AT 
LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] De la part de Michael Leone
Envoyé : mercredi, 26. juin 2013 16:16
À : EMC NetWorker discussion
Objet : Re: [Networker] VSS chnages in NW 8?

> > "I can't test that during the week (it is a production server), but 
> > the DISASTER_RECOVERY: backs up everything listed as a SYSTEM 
> > WRITER,
> right? "
> > 
> > There's no need to test - just look at the save set list of your
> backups.
> 
> Well, obviously I can't. :-) We don't do DISASTER_RECOVERY: savesets,
not 
> on this server (well, we usually just use saveset ALL). When we did, 
> it was as I explained - E: was included as a system files, because 
> that's
how 
> it's configured. (Lotus Domino - the back end for Notes - registers
itself 
> as SYSTEM FILES, during installation).

Let me explain again - if I was to use saveset ALL, I would get (as part of the 
SYSTEM FILESET, I believe - it's been 2 years since we tried ut), it would be 
700G, because it would include all of E:\Lotus\Domino, which is included in the 
SYSTEM FILES writers, as evidenced by the "diskshadow", "List Writers" 
commands. That is the behavior we saw with NW 7.6.2.

If I *just* specify:

VSS BOOT:
VSS SYSTEM SERVICES:
VSS SYSTEM FILESET:

These are *not* 700G sized datasets. So using ALL, which also includes 
DISASTER_RECOVERY:, results in much larger savesets. So the difference must be 
the inclusion of that DISASTER_RECOVERY: saveset, which seems to be saving more 
than when you just explicitly list the 3 VSS savesets above.

I may be using the wrong terms, but the main point is that files are duplicated 
when using ALL, and not duplicated when explicitly listing those 3 VSS 
savesets. This is only on Win 2008.