Global Drive Snapshot
The Global Drive Snapshot property specifies that the snapshot be of a global drive, where all the volumes that require snapshots for the backup job (or stream group for multi-streamed backups) are taken at one time.
This property appears for master servers only.
For example, assume that drives C and D are being backed up. In this situation, NetBackup performs the following actions:
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NetBackup takes a snapshot of C and D.
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NetBackup backs up C, then backs up D.
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NetBackup discards the C and D snapshots.
This property maintains file consistency between files in different volumes since the backup is using the same snapshot taken at a point in time for all volumes in the backup.
Note
The Individual Drive Snapshot and Global Drive Snapshot properties only apply to non multi-streamed backups using Windows Open File Backup. All multi-streamed backup jobs share the same volumes snapshots for the volumes in the multi-streamed policy and the volume snapshots are taken in a global fashion (all at once).
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