Solstice Backup 5.1 Administration Guide

Preconfigured Directives Shipped with Backup

Backup ships with the preconfigured directives, as listed in Table 2-6, that cover the most important and most useful backup instructions.

Table 2-6 Preconfigured Directives


Directive	Description
UNIX standard (Can be modified but not deleted)	Use for most of your UNIX clients, and when you do not need one of the other specialized directives. This selection: Applies the directive "+null: core" to the root directory (/), thus skipping the backup of all core files. Contains a swapasm directive to back up the relevant information about all NFS-based and local swap files, but not the data in them. Contains a mailasm directive to ensure that your mail files are backed up but not marked as read, and logasm for directories containing log files.
UNIX standard with compression	Use to backup and compress your UNIX clients.
DOS standard	Use to back up your DOS clients.
DOS standard with compression	Use to back up and compress your DOS clients.
NetWare standard	Use to back up your NetWare clients.
NetWare standard with compression	Use to back up and compress your NetWare clients.
Windows NT standard	Use to back up your Windows NT clients.
Windows NT standard with compression	Use to back up and compress your Windows NT clients.
Index	Use to back up the client file index. This option is usually only used by the Backup `savegrp` program.

You can create your own directives to further increase the efficiency of client file backups. For further details, see "Creating Customized Directives ".