Hi, Thanks, I will give this a try, but I also opened a case w/Symantec as the internals have changed, previously, yes, with multiple streams it would just backup (virtually nothing) for the excluded drives and exit with 0 status.
Justin. On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Jim VandeVegt wrote: > You probably have multi-streaming turned on for this policy. The > ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES creates a stream for each drive letter, and usually one for > system state or shadow copy components. The streams are created regardless of > exclude list contents. > > The stream that performs the backup of C: produces no output because the > whole thing is excluded. > > I have two possible solutions: > 1) turn off multi-streaming for this policy. I'm not sure what effect this > has on the system state backup. > 2) have the administrators include *something* on the C:\ drive, even if it > is an empty directory. > ------------------ > Jim VandeVegt | Technical Integrator, ETG > Physicians Mutual | 2600 Dodge Street | Omaha, NE 68131 > 402.930.2649 | PhysiciansMutual.com | jim.vandev...@physiciansmutual.com > > Insurance for all of us.? > health | life | retirement > ________________________________________ > From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > [veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz > [jpis...@lucidpixels.com] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 13:02 > To: Chapman, Scott > Cc: 'veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu' > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 90 on Windows hosts with NBU 7.x client for > Windows? > > Hi, > > Please disregard, the actual example is: > > Exclude Lists: > C:\ > D:\ > > Include Lists:\ > D:\Mydata > > Where mydata is the only path we want to backup and nothing else on D:\ > (potentially TB of live DB, where, we only want the dumps, for example). > > Justin. > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Chapman, Scott wrote: > >> That doesn't make any sense to me... why not just use all local drives and >> exclude C:\ from that... Having and "exception to the exclude list" of D:\ >> doesn't make sense... D:\ isn't part of C:\... >> >> I would just use all local drives and exclude C:\... >> >> Scott Chapman >> Senior Technical Specialist >> Storage and Database Administration >> ICBC - Victoria >> Ph: 250.414.7650 Cell: 250.213.9295 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu >> [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Piszcz >> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:52 AM >> To: Patrick >> Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu >> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Error 90 on Windows hosts with NBU 7.x client for >> Windows? >> >> Hi Patrick, >> >> The ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES is specified on the server, and then the team who >> handles windows can setup the includes and excludes locally on their >> client, that allows the user to configure the backups as they please and >> not require any intervention from the server-side of things other than >> adding the client properly. >> >> Example: >> >> Exclude Lists: >> <<All Policies>> >> << All schedules>> >> C:\ >> >> Exceptions to the exclude list: >> <<All schedules>> >> D:\ >> >> Therefore, ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES backs up D:\ and System State and excludes >> C:\, this is how it has always worked and no errors and the data has been >> backed up successfully and tested via restore with no issues, the problem >> is with 7.0.1 and (maybe 7.0?) that it gets an error 90 for C:\ instead of >> just skipping it and exiting with a status 0, I think there was a tech >> note on this somewhere. >> >> Justin. >> >> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Patrick wrote: >> >>> Why would you do that?! Are you trying to see how many errors you can cause >>> by using non-sense combinations? Either >>> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and exclude C: \ >>> or >>> specify D: only in the file section. >>> You are including the D:\ drive which should be included when you said >>> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Patrick Whelan >>> VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for UNIX. >>> VERITAS Certified NetBackup Support Engineer for Windows. >>> >>> netbac...@whelan-consulting.co.uk >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu >>> [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin >>> Piszcz >>> Sent: 29 April 2011 18:22 >>> To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu >>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Error 90 on Windows hosts with NBU 7.x client for >>> Windows? >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Has anyone seen this? >>> >>> Windows 2008 clients: >>> >>> CLIENT: >>> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES >>> >>> On the client, >>> EXCLUDE C:\ >>> INCLUDE D:\ >>> >>> For the C:\ backup it will get the following error: >>> >>> Apr 29, 2011 10:09:22 AM - mounting TAPE01 Apr 29, 2011 10:09:24 AM - >>> connecting Apr 29, 2011 10:09:24 AM - connected; connect time: 0:00:00 Apr >>> 29, 2011 10:09:59 AM - mounted TAPE01; mount time: 0:00:37 Apr 29, 2011 >>> 10:09:59 AM - positioning TAPE01 to file 59 Apr 29, 2011 10:10:31 AM - >>> positioned TAPE01; position time: 0:00:32 Apr 29, 2011 10:10:31 AM - begin >>> writing Apr 29, 2011 10:11:31 AM - end writing; write time: 0:01:00 media >>> manager received no data for backup image (90) >>> >>> With < 7.0 this never happened, is this a bug? >>> The data in D:\ does get backed up however. >>> >>> Justin. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu >>> http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> This email and any attachments are intended only for the named >> recipient and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. >> Any unauthorized copying, dissemination or other use by a person >> other than the named recipient of this communication is prohibited. >> If you received this in error or are not named as a recipient, >> please notify the sender and destroy all copies of this email >> immediately. >> > ____________________________________________________________ > This message and any attachments are confidential, may contain privileged > information, and are intended solely for the recipient named above. > If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for > delivery to the named recipient, you are notified that any review, > distribution, dissemination or copying is prohibited. 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