Changing Backup Filenames automatically

[smiff]

My (Windows) client generates its own backup regularly. It creates a new directory whose name is based on the backup date and then dumps the backedup data into it. I want the NetBackup agent to backup this new directory without the operator continually having to modify the filename.

I'm still at the stage of evaluating NetBackup for a new network - so forgive me if the answer to this question is obvious.

 

[sdeb]

Perhaps you could simply backup the whole system/disk,
using the "ALL_LOCAL_DRIVE" directive if you backup the whole machine or the drive name where the new directory is located (like "C:"...).

(You could use it if this changing directory is not to small
compared to the size of the whole disk).

 

[smiff]

It has been suggest to me (by someone who claims to know these things) that the best approach is to have a script which renames the backed-up data file before it is saved by NetBackup, in this way the file name will always be the same. Of course this means that restoration will never be able to get back to the original file name.