On 11:27, marted� 15 ottobre 2002, Toralf Lund wrote:
> > This is pretty easy to solve with a separate dumptype and excludelist
> > for the toplevel directory. For example I have a large fs called /w.
> > Under it are several large, seldom changing dirs, call them a, c, and e.
> > But there are also other more active and smaller dirs called b, d, and
> > ...
> > where ... might be changing.
> >
> > In my disklist I have entries /w/a, /w/c, and /w/e using my normal tar
> > dumptype and and exclude list file that excludes ./tmp, ./dumps, ...
> >
> > I also have a disklist entry for /w using a dumptype named "normal tar
> > dumptype"-w and an exclude list file named "..."-w. It excluded ./tmp,
> > ./dumps, and all the same stuff but also ./a, ./c, and ./e.
>
> It would perhaps be even simpler to keep everything consistent if you
> could have multiple "exclude" entries in dumptype spec, but I understand
> this is possible in Amanda 2.4.3.
Yep!
I also have a "/w" filesystem (i'm not joking :), containing some VeryBigDirs
(/w/video, /w/music, etc) and a lot of small subdirs (/w/tmp /w/install etc).
And I also the same hack: a global "/w" disklist, with a custom exclude file
that keeps out the backup "./video ./music etc etc), a single disklist
entries for each of the excluded dirs.
It works fine, but w/out the multiple exclude entries is a bad job to tuneup
exclude files (I'm using 2.4.2p2 and this feature is not present).
Anyway, IMHO the best solution is a "smarter" disklist, where you can set:
1. the server name
2. the backup "filesystem name"
3. a LIST (with or w/out regular expr, but A LIST) of
filesystems and/or directories to feed tar
(the p.2 is about the fact that you cannot name a backup by it's filesystem
name when you can have a list of dirs instead of one).
Obviously this works only using GNUTAR, but there are too many caveats about
the use of DUMP to be included in my favorite programs :-)
Mmmm ... It's a lot of year that I use amanda, but I've not time to follow
alle the messages in this mailing list. I recently see strange (to me)
disklist examples, like:
> hosta /diskA/all /diskA {
> # all directories except the one that start with [a-u]
> high-tar
> exclude "./[a-u]*"
> } 1
> hosta /diskA/ag /diskA {
> # all directories that start with [a-g] except big1 and big2
> high-tar
> include "./[a-g]*"
> exclude "./big1" "./big2"
> } 1
Can we define complex parameters in disklist using square brackets? What
release of amanda is required to do this?
Cheers,
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