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gplus's avatar
gplus
Level 3
9 years ago

Backing up LUNs provisioned to server

Our current setup for all our policy is set to backup "All Local Drives" but for some servers there are LUN's provisioned to them and is formatted and mounted to created directories. Something lik...
  • revarooo's avatar
    9 years ago

    > bpmount will just check if the mount points are included or not right?

    This tells you what filesystems WILL be included if you use ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES

     

    > If incase they didn't show up, will adding in selection list the only way we can included them in backup?

    YES

    > what about for NFS, how can we include them in the backup?

    NFS you have to include manually.

    You could however specify / in your Backup Selections and tick in the Attributes section of the policy "Follow NFS" and "Cross mount points"

    This would backup all NFS mounts AND all filesystems under the / filesystem (so everything)

     

    Personally I would backup NFS mounts directly on the server sharing the filesystem/directory not on the system mounting them over the network.