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Seth_E
Level 6
11 years ago
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NEW_STREAM with wildcards

Hi all,

 

We have a huge file server and i've setup the backup selection as follows:

 

d:\folder\a*
NEW_STREAM
d:\folder\b*
d:\folder\c*
NEW_STEAM
d:\folder\d*

 

This works very well, but, the problem is, what if a folder on d:\folder "e" is created. Is there a way to ensure that Netbackup picks up any new subfolders of "folder"?

Thank you,

 

Seth

 

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  • Mux's avatar
    Mux
    11 years ago

    You can create a new policy with d:\folder\* as backup selection and then exclude d:\folder\a*, d:\folder\b*, d:\folder\c* and d:\folder\d* for this particular policy.

     

    By this way, you can ensure that no newly created folder is missed.

  • Seth_E's avatar
    Seth_E
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    This solution worked!

     

    However, the catch all didn't pick up new test folders at first. I had to disable change journal and the new folders were backed up. I'll investigate this further.

     

    Policy 1 has backup selection of ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES
    Policy 2 has a backup selection which contains all data for d:\folder\
     

    The client has exclusions bound to Policy 1 which match the inclusions of Policy2.

    I run Policy 2, no problem. Data is backed up

    I run Policy 1 and the D:\ stream finishes very quickly, but , my test folders in d:\ and d:\folder\ didn't get backed up. My gut told me to try turning off change journal, and after that, the files were backed up.

    I'm now starting to wonder if change journal can be trusted, however, this is for another forum :)