Networker for Mac OS X - directive

Question

I'm trying to back up a MAC using the All save set with a customized directive. The All save set works fine but my exclusion of a mounted drive isn't working.

The volume is called /volumes/Video Arch 1, my latest failure:

<< / >>
skip: "/Volumes/Video Arch 1"

Does anyone know the correct syntax to skip a drive that has spaces in the name?? Any help woud be appreciated!! Karen

DavidHampson · Accepted Answer

KarenFor a start your directive is wrong - it would be something like this:<>+skip: *.*- or something like that. However if you do not wish to back that up you may find it better to amend your savesets for the clients to not include the mounted volume as the above directive would still result in a successful backup of the volume even though no data was actually backed up!

willb11 · Answer

I have a similar problem with Macintosh. I want networker to backup All, but ignore /Volumes and everything beneath. Here's some examples of what I've tried (comments indicate some of my variations):
#<< "/Volumes/name_here" >>
#<< /Volumes/ >>
<< /Volumes >>
# +skip: * .?*
# skip: * .?*
+skip: *.*
<< / >>
#Tried all the following without quotes too! (These directives were entered by a previous admin)
skip: "Desktop DB"
skip: "Desktop DF"
+skip: ".DS_Store"
skip: "cores"
skip: "VM_Storage"
skip: "TheVolumeSettingsFolder"
#Tried to remove the following line too, also let it sit alone without the << /Volumes >> above
+skip: "Volumes"
+compressasm: "."

It seems no combination I can produce will cause Networker to skip over what's in the /Volumes directory. Therefore, if the user has something mounted (like a DVD), all that data gets backed up too.

DavidHampson · Answer

What the directive needs to be is:<< /Volumes >>+skip: *.*Your directory goes in the <<>> brackets and the file specification goes below (the preceding + indicates it is recursive - ie carries on down the directory tree)

DavidHampson · Answer

The directive looks correct - have you assigned it to
the client you are backing up. Also remember that
the server side directive only applies for group
backups; if you are doing a test backup of the data
from the client it will not apply the server side
directive.

The directive is applied to the client and the client is only run while in a group.

willb11 · Answer

The directive looks correct - have you assigned it to
the client you are backing up. Also remember that
the server side directive only applies for group
backups; if you are doing a test backup of the data
from the client it will not apply the server side
directive.

The directive is applied to the client and the client is only run while in a group.

willb11 · Answer

What the directive needs to be is:<< /Volumes >>+skip: *.*Your directory goes in the <<>> brackets and the filespecification goes below (the preceding + indicatesit is recursive - ie carries on down the directorytree) That's what I have. It doesn't work.

DavidHampson · Answer

Try:<< /Volume>>+skip: .I think that one will work for you...

willb11 · Answer

Try:<< /Volume>>+skip: .I think that one will work for you... Sorry, I'm afraid it didn't. Any other thoughts?(I had a space at the end - << /Volume >> instead of << /Volume>>, I hope that's what you meant)

ble1 · Answer

Therefore, if the user has something mounted (like a DVD), all that data gets backed up too.

I'd like to come back to this statement. There was a bug in Mac client where saveset All would backup everything mounted (including CD-ROMs/DVD). However that has been fixed in 7.1.1 (LGTpa59745) so that the save set All backs up only physical hard drives.

This brings us to next question - what client package do you use? I would assume you should not see this in some of the current packages (eg. 7.1.4, 7.2.2, etc).

If what you are tring to skip is mounted file system and for some reason saveset All doesn't work as expected with your version (bug regression?) workaround would be to list savesets (volumes) you wish to backup. The issue itself then should be reported to official support.

willb11 · Answer

Therefore, if the user has something mounted (like a DVD), all that data gets backed up too.

I'd like to come back to this statement. There was a bug in Mac client where saveset All would backup everything mounted (including CD-ROMs/DVD). However that has been fixed in 7.1.1 (LGTpa59745) so that the save set All backs up only physical hard drives.

This brings us to next question - what client package do you use? I would assume you should not see this in some of the current packages (eg. 7.1.4, 7.2.2, etc).

If what you are tring to skip is mounted file system and for some reason saveset All doesn't work as expected with your version (bug regression?) workaround would be to list savesets (volumes) you wish to backup. The issue itself then should be reported to official support.

ble1 · Answer

It could be some kind of regression - I would suggest to check it out with support.

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