RE: HP OmniBack II backup?

Larry,

Thank you for your help. I also learned a bit about reading the session logs from HP this afternoon. Between the two, I understand what is happening, and my comfort level has been restored.

Don

At 07:10 AM 10/4/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Don,
>OmniBack does not backup mounted file systems. It backs up the directory as
>a empty directory. The warning message is telling you that the file system
>mounted at "/u04" is not being backed up as part of "/".
>You have two choices to back up mounted files systems. One is to add the
>file system to the OmniBack backup specification. In addition to "/" in the
>backup specification , add "/u04". A second method is to not add any file
>systems to the backup specification. OmniBack will discover all locally
>mounted file systems on the server when the backup starts. If you add a new
>files system, OmniBack will automatically back it up without any changes to
>the backup specification.
>Hope this helps.
>Larry Noble
>DBA
>Medrad Inc
>
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>
>The HP UX sys admin showed me that the backup starts at the root directory
>and copies everything from there on - each night and every night. That
>seems like a lot of extra copying, but that's another story.
>
>Since the db is shut down 2 hours before the backup kicks off, we should be
>getting a good db backup. However, I am finding the following messages in
>the Omni logs. Can you explain what the message means?
>
>
> Warning: /u04 is mounted to a different file system. Directory backed
>up as an empty directory.
>
>
>
>Thx - Don
>
>
>
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