Kasper Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to make amanda follow symlinks? > > I have a disk that has grown larger than the tape used and need a way to > backup this disk without splitting it into different disks. I made a script > that creates a few directories and populate these with symlinks to the > large disk. Treating these directories as seperate disks should work if I > could only get amanda to follow symlinks. > > The faq has a mention about creating a wrapper around tar - amtar. But, if > I understand correct, this will make amanda follow symlinks in all > situations. What is needed is an option that will pass "--dereference" to tar. > > Any suggestions?
Kasper, The standard approach is to backup _all_ direct sub directories as seperate disklist entries. E. g. I moved from server /home <dumptype> to server /home/department1 <dumptype> server /home/department2 <dumptype> etc. Using exclude lists (for /home/department1 and /home/department2) you can even backup /home to catch multiple small directories. In your case I'd use disk list entries for the directories where the symlinks point to. HTH, Johannes Nie�
