On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:29:34AM -0700, ghe enlightened us: > On Dec 21, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > >Charles Curley wrote: > >> > > >>An excludes file. > > >I got the sense that he wanted to back them up. > > Yes, I do. > > >I get around that problem by using snapshots. But I'm on Solaris 9, > >where I have fssnap and a wrapper so that when Amanda calls ufsdump > >it ends up doing a snapshot and backing up the snapshot. > > That'll do it. AFAIK, the snapshots concept doesn't exist on Linux. > But since I'm running amdump from a shell script already, I can do it > myself: ssh over and cp -r the directory, then back up the clone (I'm > assuming cp isn't as picky as tar). > > Thanks for the replies, both of you.
You can do snapshots with LVM on Linux. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
