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Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Setting a Virtual Mount Point

If you are an Authorized User and you want back up files beginning with a specific directory within a file system, you can define that directory as a virtual mount point (see Virtualmountpoint).

Defining a virtual mount point within a file system provides a direct path to the files you want to back up, thus saving processing time. It is more efficient than defining the file system with the domain option and then using an exclude option to exclude the files you do not want to back up. It also allows you to store backups and archives for specific directories in separate storage file spaces.

Note: The backup-archive client does not recognize AFS/DFS volume mount points. You must install the AFS/DFS client. For more information about using the AFS/DFS backup-archive clients, see Appendix A, The AFS and DFS File Backup Clients.


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