Snapshot tips
Note the following tips:
In the list, be sure to specify absolute path names. Refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I for help specifying files in the list.
If an entry in the list is a symbolic (soft) link to another file, Snapshot Client backs up the link, not the file to which the link points. This NetBackup behavior is standard. To back up the actual data, include the file path to the actual data.
On the other hand, a raw partition can be specified in its usual symbolic-link form (such as /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s1). Do not specify the actual device name that /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s1 points to. For raw partitions, Snapshot Client automatically resolves the symbolic link to the actual device.
The policy attribute is not available for the policies that are configured for snapshots. This option is not available because NetBackup does not cross file system boundaries during a backup of a snapshot. A backup of a high-level file system, such as / (root), does not back up the files residing in lower-level file systems. Files in the lower-level file systems are backed up if they are specified as separate entries in the list. For instance, to back up /usr and /var, both /usr and /var must be included as separate entries in the list.
For more information on , refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
On Windows, the \ must be entered in the list after the drive letter (for example, D:\).
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