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sclind's avatar
sclind
Level 6
8 years ago

Enter backup selections for big directories - then catch everything else

I want to split up the STD backup for a large Linux file system into multiple streams yet also make sure I never miss any data.  So is there anyway to accomplish something like:

/fsname/big_directory_one
NEW_STREAM
/fsname/really_big_directory_two
NEW_STREAM
/fsname/super_big_directory_three
NEW_STREAM
/fsname/(catch everything else)

I dont really want to hard code anything in the /xxx/(catch everything else); I was hoping there was a way for Netbackup to do it.

7.7
AIX
    • sclind's avatar
      sclind
      Level 6
      8 years ago

      What I dont see on there is the 'catch everything else' option.  Did I miss that?

      • Genericus's avatar
        Genericus
        Moderator
        8 years ago

        This is very easy to do, I do it for several of my systems with large filesystems.

        1. create a policy that has the large file systems as selections, like you have already. DO NOT INCLUDE THE "EVERYTHING ELSE OPTION"

        2. create a second policy that backs up everything, and EXCLUDE the large file systems selected in the first policy.

        Excluding directories and files is pretty easy for unix and windows.

        This also allows you to have full backups of the OS, with incrementals of the larger filesystems if desired.