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[Veritas-bu] Schedule specific file exclusions

2000-12-12 23:09:57
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Schedule specific file exclusions
From: Bill Wiessner bill.wiessner AT veritas DOT com
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:09:57 -0500
Be careful, if you are using the Lotus Notes extension for NBU, the first
thing is does is disable the exclude file list (as well as OTM and
Viruscan).


Bill Wiessner
VERITAS Software <http://www.veritas.com/> 
SE DOD Intel
Office:  410-877-7689 
Cell:     410-804-3321 



                -----Original Message-----
                From:   David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
                Sent:   Tuesday, December 12, 2000 4:13 PM
                To:     John_Wang AT enron DOT net
                Cc:     veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
                Subject:        RE: [Veritas-bu] Schedule specific file
exclusions

                Well, yes similar, remember its done from the NT GUI.  When
you open it up
                you will see the Exclude tab, Include tab, Servers, etc.

                >>if I exclude a directory locally but files in that
directory are
                >>matched by the Class file specification, will it get
backed up?

                No they will not get backed up (at least they shouldn't, I'm
fighting an NT
                3.4 exclude problem right now as a matter of fact).

                For instance, one of my clients has a HUGE directory on one
of their data
                servers, it is so large that we have to 'chunk' it up into
multiple streams
                (NEW_STREAM, etc.). That works just fine, however, when the
Normal class
                does the "regular" backups, it is supposed to exclude that
HUGE directory.
                Unfortunately for me and my client it isn't working that
way, which is a bit
                troublesome.

                David


                -----Original Message-----
                From: John_Wang AT enron DOT net [mailto:John_Wang AT enron DOT 
net]
                Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 2:50 PM
                To: david AT datastaff DOT com
                Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
                Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Schedule specific file exclusions




                Hello David

                So what's the syntax for providing the class and schedule
specification?
                Would
                it be something like:

                     NT-Mail.OS-Only     *.nsf

                The second part of the question was what the relationship
between the file
                specification on the master server and the include/exclude
list on the
                client.
                That is, if I exclude a directory locally but files in that
directory are
                matched by the Class file specification, will it get backed
up?   I get the
                impression that the class file specification is more for
multi-streaming
                definition than for file exclusion.

                Regards,
                John I Wang
                Sr. Systems Engineer
                Steverson Information Professionals

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                3 Allen Center 3AC872e
                ph (713) 345-6863




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                The exclude and include lists are now held in the NT
registry.  This needs
                to be modified either on the local machine using the
Netbackup User
                Interface or from an NT Administrative client machine.

                In either case, you supply the class name and or schedule
for the exclude
                list (supplying none will make the exclude global for all
NBU classes).

                Next you will supply the list you wish to exclude.  The
manual does give you
                valid NT wild cards and examples you can use.   However, if
you want to
                exclude just the *.nsf files, then simply put that in the
file list for any
                *nsf files.

                I don't think I understand the second part of your question.

                David

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                Subject: [Veritas-bu] Schedule specific file exclusions




                Hello

                OK, I can't quite figure this one out.   I have NT based
mail servers
                running
                Lotus notes,   I'd like to set up schedules that would back
up everything
                except
                the *.nsf files which are the users mail folders and I'd
like to set up a
                schedule that only backs up the *.nsf files so that I can
direct the backups
                to
                different volume pools with different retention periods.
The class and
                schedule specific instructions in the Administrators Guide
seems to be for
                Unix
                clients where simply creating files named
                /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list.CLASS.SCHEDULE suffices.
How would this
                be
                done in Windows NT or Windows 2000?

                Also, the manual is quite clear that files in the client's
local inclusion
                list
                gets added back in even if excluded by the client's local
exclusion list.
                How
                do these two lists relate with the Files specification on
the class?  Can
                file
                exclusions be specified in the class Files specification?

                Regards,
                John I Wang
                Sr. Systems Engineer
                Steverson Information Professionals

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                Enron Broadband Services
                3 Allen Center 3AC872e
                ph (713) 345-6863



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