Backup Selections tab options when configuring a policy
Note the following about the options on the Backup Selections tab:
policies do not support the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES entry in the list (except for the VMware and Hyper-V snapshot methods).
For snapshots, the maximum pathname length is approximately 1000 characters (as opposed to 1023 characters for backups that do not use a snapshot method).
The NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I, describes other file-path rules.
Wildcards are permitted if the wildcard does not correspond to a mount point or a mount point does not follow the wildcard in the path.
Note:
This is applicable to a Storage Lifecycle Policy that has snapshot as the first operation and does not contain any backup or replicate operation.
For example, in the path /a/b, if /a is a mounted file system or volume, and /a/b designates a subdirectory in that file system: the entry /a/b/*.pdf causes NetBackup to make a snapshot of the /a file system and to back up all pdf files in the /a/b directory. But, with an entry of /* or /*/b, the backup may fail or have unpredictable results, because the wildcard corresponds to the mount point /a. Do not use a wildcard to represent all or part of a mount point.
In another example, /a is a mounted file system which contains another mounted file system at /a/b/c (where c designates a second mount point). A Backup Selections entry of /a/*/c may fail or have unpredictable results, because a mount point follows the wildcard in the path.
Information is available on the policy attribute.
See Snapshot tips.
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