How to ignore directives?

[ravashaak]

How would I go about initiating a backup that would ignore all directives (in short, backing up everything on the drive, regardless of .nsr or group directive)?

Thanks!

 

[ravashaak]

Well, utilizing the save command with the -i switch will ignore .nsr directives. I *think* server directives will still be honored. I'll have to test to be certain.

 

[RMinNJ]

If you have a global directive on the server , specifying
"ignore" is suppose to accomplish this; it will not search
for .nsr files on the client or server. You don't want it
to ignore the .nsr files on the server so be certain not to
specify it for /nsr .. For our Windows clients I have it
specified as:

<< / >>
ignore

and the same for Unix server with an exception for /nsr ..

<< / >>
+skip: core
ignore
<< /nsr >>
allow
...


I think the theory behing this was "why tie up the client
searching for .nsr files when we don't use them anyway".

 

[605]

ravashaak, what you want to do is not supported. Please keep in mind that the save/usam mechanism which is file for files will not properly backup the NW databases, especially the media db.

If you want to do that, you should first stop NW, but then you need another server to backup all files on that client. Another option would be a RAW backup. But again you need another NW server as you cannot backup a running system.