Backup NAS mount points

Hi,

You will need to use save -x to cross mount points. See the command reference manual for further details. Without the -x option NetWorker only backs up local files.


Hope this helps

IKP

Can we use it in backup command on a scheduled backups?

Correct way would be to backup NAS appliance via NDMP.

Very true H, but not always possible.

If NDMP is not viable / supported / configurable then have to have to option to save via the mount points.


IKP

In that case they do, but is this the case? ndmp should be protocol which all NAS filers should use and for basic operations like backup they would (should) all act the same. While differences are obvious even for supported brands, I would rather have my unqualified filer qualified than using mount points to backup filer. I think that would be the way to go in such scenario.

This sounds something like DFS roots. You have to specify the save set and it will not skip it. For example, our client resources for these servers used to say this:

all

then it was determined that they were not backing up because NetWorker was able to determine that the volume was not local and skipped it. When we specified the save sets to explicitly include the DFS roots, it worked. Example:

C:\
D:\
E:\edm (<--DFS Root that was previously skipped)


Does this work?

That's a bit more different...

Yep, I realise that we're not dealing with DFS roots; I was wondering if explicitly defining the save sets by volume would work though.

It should, but there are certain caveats from release to release and depending on that some extra switch to save command might be required.