Question about NEW_STREAM

[Nathan_Kippen]

Quick question (sorta):

Lets suppose ...

I have a unix-based system called "fruitbox."

Lets also suppose I have a directory structure like the following:

/home/apple/
/home/apricot/
/home/anotherfruit/

/home/banana/
/home/berry/
/home/booze/

/home/cherry/
/home/chocolate_cherry/
/home/cherry_fruit/

..and I have a policy for host fruitbox that has these paths in my path selection.


Is there away that I can use NEW_STREAM to create 3 streams: one with all the directories that begin with 'a', one with all that start with 'b', and one with all that contains 'c'?

I tried something like this:

example of path selection:
----------------------------------------
NEW_STREAM
/home/a*
NEW_STREAM
/home/b*
NEW_STREAM
/home/c*
----------------------------------------

and I know this works on a windows box the way I want, but when I try this on unix it ends up creating a stream for each individual directory instead of grouping the directories like I want. (Like it uses the "auto-discover" directive mode instead of the "administrator-defined" mode.)


..Hope this makes sense.

[Lance_Hoskins]

Go WINDOWS!

Sorry JD, had to say it! ;)

[zippy]

Lance,

Why would you stream it on a UNIX Server, if you enviroment is set up and configured correctly, which I hope it is, its not needed.


Thanks go out ot IBM for the invention of the Mouse and for IPOD boy putting it to good use!.

JD

[Peter_Jakobs]

Off course it makes sence to do this also on a Unix box. I am already doing it for years. Otherwise you cannot backup one (very big) file system with several tape drives.

Are you sure the first line of the backup selection is the NEW_STREAM entry? It looks like he is going into the auto discover streaming mode.
Or you can try something like this:
NEW_STREAM
/home/*
NEW_STREAM
etcetc

Peter

[zippy]

Peter,

what im saying is..I dont do it cause it takes longer to restore large sums of data, I would rather have the data restored faster then take a short time to dump it to tape.

etcetc what that?

JD

[Nathan_Kippen]

I failed to mention that I'm using the following:

HP-UX
NB5.1 MP4

....as of right now my catalog backup takes at least two hours .... with the amount of data I have to backup each weekend and vault (about 50 terabytes) It's hard to have all my jobs done to offsite each monday morning. So I am attempting this to be able to utilize more drives.

I'll try some more testing today to see if I can get it to work. Thanks for your help.

[Nathan_Kippen]

Peter,

Two things that were discovered...

Every time I would try to change the selection list netbackup act like it was savings my changes but was still using an old selection list ... like my changes weren't being applied even though I could visually see that they had been... anyway I restarted netbackup services and fixed that problem.

Also I think was putting my splat (*) inside the bracket i.e. instead of outside.

Thanks for your help again..

[Dennis_Strom]

My understanding is with UNIX and Netbackup the filelist will not use meta characters except the wild card. the exception is in the include list.

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/277155.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/275578.htm
http://support.veritas.com/docs/262618
http://support.veritas.com/docs/265896
http://support.veritas.com/docs/242917

I think you could do a compromise of
NEW_STREAM
/home/a*
/home/b*
/home/c*
NEW_STREAM
/home/d*
etc...

the problem witht he above is that if the is no /home/b* your backups will fail with I think it is a status 71.