When doing our make_net_recovery we are excluding some directories that we do not want data backed up in.
When we had to do a restore of one of these servers we did not expect the data to be there since we excluded it from the recovery, but the directory itself was not there either.
Is there a way to exclude the contents of a directory, but still retain the directory itself when restored ??
make_net_recovery -v -x inc_entire=/dev/vx/dsk/rootdg -x exclude=/osg1/patches/*.* -s odcign1-0 -P s -a odcign1-0:/var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/odcign1
Warning messages during run of make_net_recovery:
WARNING: File '/osg1/patches/*.*' in archive_content list not found, or too big for pax to handle. Skipping.
** 0 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Not included in the System Recovery Archive ** 1 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Partially included in the System Recovery Archive ** 2 - The Volume Group or Filesystem is Fully included in the System Recovery Archive
WARNING: File '/osg1/patches/*.*' in archive_content list not found, or too big for pax to handle. Skipping. WARNING: list_expander returned a warning,please check the log file. WARNING: File '/osg1/patches/*.*' in archive_content list not found, or too big for pax to handle. Skipping.
Right the -x exclude /dir/to/exclude will exclude the directory from the backup.
The problem is when we did a restore of the server from a backup image, the excluded directories were missing and had to be recreated.
What I was after was a way to exclude all files and subdirectories but when a restore is done still have the base directory name there and not have to recreate them manually.
