Skip the Bootstrap?

[182RacingBlue]

our networker server has some large drives for SQL backups and other stuff as it's the networker server and even though ive got a sinlge path defined it continues to try and secure the bootstrap I want to exclude the bootstrap is there a directive i can use to exclude it?

 

[605]

A SQL server running on a backup server? I do not consider this as a recommended solution.

Anywany, i doubt that you can do that. It is of course possible to write such directive:

<< "pathname\nsr" >
+never: res mm

But probably it will simply would be ignored because the bootstrap is also a process, not just a save set.

However, if it works, never forget to have another client instance without this directive.


Worst case you can only avoid that by running manual backups.

 

[605]

Rethinking the situation provided the answer ... ;-)

As usual, the automatic backup runs the save command for the index and bootstrap save sets. So there is no process walking through a filesystem. Consequently, directives will not be used at all.

So the only solution would be to run manual backups which do not include the nsr directory.

 

[182RacingBlue]

The networker has a large file share for SQL servers to deliver there backups up it.

It's just this perticular backup I run is a monthly backup and tapes are only in the library once a month, were the all other save sets skip (as per the schedule) it's waiting for media to take a copy of the bootstap (Nightmare!) as the file share is on a drive of the networker server.

I can't get that directive to work still.

 

[605]

Let me suggest you define a cron job for a manual backup in this case.

 

[182RacingBlue]

Yeah im already there now. many thanks for the reply though.