On 10/16/00 07:40:30 PM -0400 dmaloy@atomaintl.com wrote: +------ | | I have two 740's which I would like to backup. We are currently using | Legato Networker for our backup solution and the backup server is a UNIX | machine with a locally connected DLT tape library. Within Networker, I | have to specify which filesystems to backup and when I specify the volume | on the filers, my backup log reports that the backup size was almost | triple the size of what the actual data size was, reported by using the | "df" command. I have a feeling that it is also backing up the .snapshot | directories for ea. vol but not sure. Is there a way to ensure that | these directories are not included in the save set? Will a "-.snapshot" | line in the client setup fix it? | +-----X8
Your syntax is incorrect, it should be "skip: .snapshot"
You can either have that in your directives on the server or in the mount point of the filesystem.
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