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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring storage units
  5. About storage unit settings
  6. Absolute pathname to directory or absolute pathname to volume setting for storage units
  7. Directory can exist on the root file system or system disk setting for storage units
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Directory can exist on the root file system or system disk setting for storage units

This setting allows the user to specify a directory on the root file system (UNIX) or on a system drive (Windows) in the Absolute pathname to directory field.

When this setting is checked, the directory is created automatically. If a storage unit is configured on C drive and this option is not checked, backups fail with status code 12 (file open failed).

Note:

With this setting checked, the root file system or the system drive can fill up.

A job fails under the following conditions:

  • If the setting is not checked, and if the directory already exists on the root file system or on a system drive.

  • If the setting is not checked, and the requested directory is to be created on the root file system or on a system drive.

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