SUMMARY: flarcreate with multiple excluded dirs

I got a little bit of conflicting information here, and ended up
performing a few tests.  It was suggested that flarcreate is a bit buggy
(or just limited in capability) but that Solaris 9 12/02 should have a
better one that allows multiple excludes.  The sun guys said it couldn't
be done, but Dale suggested that he had no problem with multiple -x <dir>
calls, ala:

	flarcreate ... -x /dir1 -x /dir2 ...

I also tested with multiple -x's (both for and within mount points) and it
seems to exclude everything I asked to exclude.  So the summary is that it
seems to work fine in the cases I've tried (on Solaris 8 2/02 with latest
jumbo, in case you were wondering) and other people have had success now,
but also that it will improve more in solaris 9 12/02.  :)

Thanks to Mike Demarco, Ahau K'in, and Dale Hirchert for the information!

cheers and thanks,
ivo


On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Ian Ivo Veach wrote:

> Greetings -
>
> We have several systems that we wish to backup for potential system
> failure.  A good solution seems to be a flash archive thrown on our
> jumpstart server.  However, our systems often have a fair amount of NFS
> mounts and data mounts that (a) we don't want to dupe, (b) we can't dupe
> because of their size.  To minimize downtime (even though this is probably
> a better process done while the system is quiesced), we don't want to take
> the data and nfs mounts down.
>
> My question is whether anyone knows of a solution of doing multiple
> (directory) excludes in a flash archive?  Some sun support guys who came
> by last week to fix a problem said they heard a rumor it could be done,
> but it had to be done with multiple archives and merging, and they didn't
> know how.
>
> thanks,
> ivo
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