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[Veritas-bu] Clarification - Policies

2006-08-29 18:00:16
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Clarification - Policies
From: ddunham at taos.com (Darren Dunham)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:00:16 -0700 (PDT)
> I setup two identical policies on my master server TEST1 and TEST2 and
> pointed them at one of my Linux servers, at a specific test directory
> /test.  I then touched two files, test1 and test2 in that directory and
> fired off TEST1 w/ a FULL.  It backed up both files.  The, without
> modifying these files I fired off the TEST2 policy with the same
> selection list but an incremental.  Theoretically if it was using the
> same date/time stamp for the last "full" it shouldn't backup these two
> files again.  Unfortunately it did, so it would appear that the
> date/time stamp method used by NBU is policy specific?

Yes, they're policy specific.

>From your "Unfortunately", I take it that you don't want that behavior
(or at least don't expect it).  Can I ask if that's true?

As an aside, Networker doesn't do this and it can certainly cause
problems in some situations.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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