Allen, No, I'm sure you could put "-snapshotroot=xxx" in the options argument to the client scheduler. But your response made me realize that I left out one relevant point: We are backing up several NAS volumes via the scheduler, not just one. We use the pre- and post- scheduler exits to mount and unmount those volumes.
So, we would need to specify a snapshotroot 'target' for each volume that we want to backup. It seems this is what 'include.fs' was designed for, to specify fs-specific options. ..Paul At 09:29 AM 8/8/2012, Allen S. Rout wrote: >On 08/07/2012 03:20 PM, Paul Zarnowski wrote: > >>It seems that the snapshotroot option would be perfect for doing >>this, except for the fact that it only seems to work for 'selective' >>or 'incremental' backups run from the command line. I don't see a >>way to do this for scheduled backups. > >Paul, does this mean that when you put -snapshotroot in the 'Options' >argument to the client schedule, it doesn't work? > >I notice in the docs that it seems pedantic about only permitting >snapshotroot when you're specifying one (and only one) filespace >target. It may be that you can't leave the filespace implicit in >e.g. a DOMAIN statement, and you have to do something like > > >def sched [domain] [name] [ action=incr ] OBJ=/nasfs >OPT='-snapshootroot=/nasfs/.snapshot/nightly.0' > > >- Allen S. Rout -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 CIT Infrastructure / Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: p...@cornell.edu