nmc backup? why that one specifically? the NW server data is more important for a NW backup server (so a bootstrap backup incl. the nw client indices, so that it is working and schedules backups and can be used for restores) than its NMC configuration (as that is to manage the NW server). Also might wanna run a filesystem backup of /nsr (that typically would skip various sub directories as those would be backed up by the bootstrap/client index backup), so to also have a backup from for example /nsr/logs and other directories.

What is /nsr at the moment? Only a link or an actual filesystem? Isn't the filesystem mounted as /nsr? So why not do that for the new filesystem via fstab or whatever approach you would have? But either would be OK.

As we have some split up nsr directories for performance reasons, there are different filesystems :

/nsr
/nsr/res
/nsr/logs
/nsr/mm
/nsr/index

So in your case it is all on one filesystem? Just to be sure?

I assume that we are dealing with a regular linux deployment here and not a NW virtual edition appliance?

Hi @bbeckers1 

thanks for your reply. 

As I wrote /nsr is mounted on a LUN and contains all subfolders in same FS. 

Yes is a linux server not an appliance.