Working on Backup Selection List

[Susan_Pitman]

1. I'm running NB 7.1.

2. I have "cross mount points" unchecked.

3. I have both / and /var listed in the Backup Selection List.

4. /var is not a filesystem--it is mounted under root.

Doesn't this mean that /var will be backed up twice?

Thanks in advance...

Susan

[J_H_Is_gone]

Couple of things to say here

 1) why not do all local drives?

2) /var is a separate file system that is mounted under /  if you do a df and look you see things like this

Filesystem 512-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on

/dev/hd4 2097152 1730152 18% 4647 1% /

/dev/hd2 14680064 7864664 47% 65669 4% /usr

/dev/hd9var 2097152 829704 61% 6208 3% /var

/dev/hd3 2097152 1921720 9% 1639 1% /tmp

/dev/hd1 35651584 7724600 79% 89622 3% /home

/proc - - - - - /proc

each one of these is a separate file system and will NOT get backed up with / (even though they are mounted under /)

if you do all local drives it will automatically backup the ones that need to be and NOT backup the ones that cannot (like proc).

[Susan_Pitman]

No, "df -h /var" does NOT show /var as a separate filesystem. It is under /.

I understand ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, etc. That is not my intention here.

I am looking at an existing Netbackup server and wondering if this is a point of cleanup.

So to try to ask it a different way...

If you have a filesystem listed TWICE in the Backup Selection List, i.e...

/var

/var

...will it get backed up twice??

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

YES - /var will be backed up twice.

Even this file list:

/
/var

will backup /var twice.