04-15-2014 09:06 AM
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?
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04-15-2014 09:19 AM
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
04-15-2014 09:19 AM
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
04-15-2014 09:32 AM
That's actually very good point
04-15-2014 09:34 AM
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
04-15-2014 11:07 AM
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.