Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Creating local directives

Local directives are text files that are on the file system of the client. The directives apply only to the immediate data within the path where the directive file is saved.

1. Use a text editor to create the directive file in the directory that contains the files to which you plan to apply the directive.
2. Create the directive statement.
   A directive statement specifies the files and directories for a directive statement, and then an ASM specification or a save environment keywords specifies the action to perform. You can also include comments in a directive statement by preceding text with a hash (#) character.
   For example, the following directive statement skips the C:\TEMP folder on a Windows system during a backup:

   <<"C:\TEMP">>
   skip

   NOTE:Do not leave blank lines in the directive statement.

   Format of directive statements provides more information about how to create a directive statement.
3. Save the local directive file.
   • On Windows, the file must be named nsr.dir. The user account that creates the file must have the permissions to create files either within the root of the volume or in a folder within the volume.
   • On UNIX, the file must be named .nsr.