My opinion is that it is better to use exclude lists. That way you have to be explicitly told NOT to back something up rather than be told you SHOULD back it up.
When the day comes to do a restore it won't matter that you had a policy that "they needed to tell us about new filesystems" - you'll get the blame for not having backed it up because its your job to do the backups. By doing the excludes and forcing them to tell you NOT to back it up you'll have an email to point at if someone later asks why it wasn't backed up. Of course you could get rather broad in the "exclude". Our policy here is we don't back up test/dev Oracle files and databases unless specifically requested and JUSTIFIED. This is on the theory that one can always "recover" a test/dev environment by refreshing from the associated Production environment and that we have limited backup resources and windows. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donaldson, Mark Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:48 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] What are your thoughts on filesystem monitoring? The majority of our NFS mounts are not backed up on the server that's mounting them. We have "cross mountpoints" checked but "follow nfs" unchecked. We mount all NFS servers to a central machine and back it up there. We consider this more managable than trying to decide on what server a multiply-shared nfs mount will get backed up and where it should be excluded. For example, a common filesystem for us is used to distribute software across nearly a hundred servers. To backup it up 100 times would be insane. We really need to consider changing from a central NFS backup server to using the NDMP method of backups but haven't implemented yet. -M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MPish44 Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 3:28 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] What are your thoughts on filesystem monitoring? Good thoughts here... thank you! One other question. What about NFS mounts? we have had to explicitly list those in the policy else we just backup a place holder filesystem "folder" with no data in it. Is it better to just have the backup selections for a Unix F/S backup as "/" and select Follow NFS and cross mount points or am I asking for trouble? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ---------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu