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Amaan
Level 6
13 years ago

Backup selection for Linux clients

Please help, i am little bit confused about backup selection for Linux clients. My current policy was ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and follow NFS and cross mount point attributes checked. I read in the admin g...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    13 years ago

    ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES will backup all local mountpoints of supported filesystem types, such as UFS, VxFS, ext3.

    Filesystems that are automatically excluded when backing up / or ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES are listed in this TN:

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH52350

    I personally prefer ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES (without cross mount points and follow NFS) with Allow Mutiple Data Streams selected.  If databases on clients, data files/directories need to be added to exclude_list.

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
13 years ago

ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES will backup all local mountpoints of supported filesystem types, such as UFS, VxFS, ext3.

Filesystems that are automatically excluded when backing up / or ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES are listed in this TN:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH52350

I personally prefer ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES (without cross mount points and follow NFS) with Allow Mutiple Data Streams selected.  If databases on clients, data files/directories need to be added to exclude_list.