Thanks to all. Basically, I need to save space on tape and time, becausee in the future I will need to add more fs to the tape and I don't want to use several per backup. I will try with the incremental idea, and if it doesn't work for me I will then try with gnutar. Thanks a lot!
Pablo.- ******************************************* My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. (Ashleigh Brilliant) ******************************************* -> ->On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:06:43PM +0100, Pablo Jejcic wrote: ->> Dear List, ->> I have Amanda working without problems on our ->network, and backing ->> up many directories using ufsdump (on solaris 9). ->> Now, we have a new project which will need a ->lot of static ->> information, and I don't want to backup it everyday, but they still ->> need a full fs for theirselfs. Therefore, how can I exclude some ->> files/directories from a ufsdump backup? -> ->You should have deleted the "In-Reply-To: " header so your ->message would look like a new topic rather than a ->continuation of the one you copied. -> ->If I understand your requirements correctly, you don't want ->to waste tape space, and maybe time, dealing with certain ->file systems daily, just once per dumpcycle. This is in ->contrast to the more common request of how to exclude a ->specific directory within a file system. (The latter can't ->be done with ufsdump, only with gnutar). -> ->Two approaches, one is don't do anything. I have several ->static DLE's (disk list entries) and for their incremental ->dumps all that is written to tape is 32KB. Not a lot of tape ->wasted. But it still takes time and cpu to determine there ->is nothing to backup. -> ->The second is to define a new dumptype to use with those ->DLE's. It can include your current dumptype plus the single ->line "skip-incr". Then between level-0 dumps on those DLE's ->you will get an amreport like this: -> -> hostname DLE 1 SKIPPED -------------------- -> -> ->HTH ->-- ->Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> JG Computing -> 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 -> Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) ->
