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Xare's avatar
Xare
Level 3
8 years ago

Incremental backup using dynamic file list

Hi, we have an application that maintains "projects" in about 400 directories with a total of 4TB data on one client machine. We want to backup only a couple of these directories. The application te...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    8 years ago
    Try the same process with INCLUDE as keyword in the text file.

    Please remember that Incrementals will only work when you are using automatic schedules in the policy - Full and Diff Incr/ Cumm Incr in the same policy.
    User type schedule can only perform Full backup .

Xare's avatar
Xare
Level 3

nbsetconfig on the client allowed me to populate the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config\Exclude

with a list of files - great. NbWin.exe shows the specified file list as "Exclude List".

For "Include list" I found no similar way to go (except manipulating the registry ...\Config\Include directly) - any ideas?

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
8 years ago
Try the same process with INCLUDE as keyword in the text file.

Please remember that Incrementals will only work when you are using automatic schedules in the policy - Full and Diff Incr/ Cumm Incr in the same policy.
User type schedule can only perform Full backup .

  • Xare's avatar
    Xare
    Level 3
    8 years ago

    Success - thank you very much.
    It is even possible to push policy and schedule with nbsetconfig:

    INCLUDE = CLASS:Policy2
INCLUDE = SCHED:Schedule2
INCLUDE = C:\projects\A
INCLUDE = C:\projects\B

     NbWin.exe shows this as a correct "Include List".