Backup Selections List Directives: General Discussion

The backup selections list for a policy can contain directives that cause NetBackup to perform specific actions when processing the files in the list.

The directives that are available depend on the policy type and whether the Allow Multiple Data Streams attribute is enabled for the policy. The following is an example of a backup selections list that contains the NEW_STREAM directive and is for an MS-Windows-NT policy that has Allow Multiple Data Streams enabled:

The example above shows how directives appear in a backup selections list. The actions that the NEW_STREAM directive causes are explained in Backup Selections List Directives for Multiple Data Streams.

The rules for specifying backup paths in the backup selections list apply regardless of whether directives are used.