I once (in a previous life) had a restore request from a user for /tmp,
which we didn't back up for obvious enough reasons.
Anyhow, this person had been storing files in /tmp for months, untill
one fine day the system was rebooted for maintainance, and all of his
hard work dissappeared.
Sometimes it technical, and sometimes it's user education.
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> William David Phillips
> Sent: January 19, 2005 1:59 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Does anyone use file excludes -
> careful about using "core"
>
>
> On restoring a partition we discovered that all files and directories
> named core were not backed up. It had nothing to do with the
> file being
> a core file. Only explicitly exclude core files with a known
> path and
> name unless you are certain none of your users will ever use the name
> core. I don't know if this is fixed in a later release.
>
> David
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