Backup NFS Mount points

[m_3sth3r]

I'm using Netbackup 7.6.0.1 on linux.

I don't seem to understand how the backups for NFS mount points work.  I read the admin manual regarding "follow NFS" and "cross mount points"

I expected that by creating a policy, selecting both options, and specifying the nfs mounted filesystem in the backup selection that this mount point would be backed up. (it is the only filesystem I want to backup with this policy)

It wasn't backed up.

The only way I could get it to backup was to also create an include_list.policyname with the same filesystem name as the backup selection 

How do other people backup nfs mount points?  

[RamNagalla · Accepted solution]

since it it working with include_list.policyname, seems there is alreay a Exclude list in place which is excludign the data that you are looking for

include_list only come to picture when there is an exclude list.

so please cross check your Exclude list and make sure its not excluding it

[Nicolai]

That's actually very good point 

[Nicolai]

You can also run the bpmount on the command line to see if Netbackup think it a NFS mount point or has been excluded.

In NetBackup 7.0 and later versions, bpmount will exclude mount points for backups if they are listed in the exclude_list file

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH141363

[Marianne]

No need to specify 'cross mount points', just 'Follow NFS'.

Please show us output of the policy:
bppllist <policy-name> -U

as well as output of 'df -h' on the client that is specified in above policy.