Am 29.11.2011 15:32, schrieb Jens Berg: > On Tue Nov 29 2011 15:17:35 GMT+0100 > [email protected] (Brian Cuttler) wrote: > >>>> (although I have to keep in mind that >>>> amanda doesn't follow symlinks, does it?). >> >>> No, AFAIK it doesn't, and you probably don't want to copy the tarballs >>> around before running amdump. > > Just remembered the -h option of gnutar, which dereferences symlinks. So > you should be able to create a directory on you amanda server, create > symlinks to the required target files of your mounted CIFS share and run > amdump on that directory with a dumptype definition using gnutar -h
yep, thanks. Right now I have it mounted via mount.cifs and browse the files to get a feeling for what is possible. For example I could run # find . -type f -mtime -1 and tar up these files somewhere on the amanda server to dump them later. Unfortunately the filenames are rather stupid. The timestamp in the filename does not correspond to the ctime ... for example. At least there is an "F" in it for FULL, I assume. - Dunno if Brian's "nofull" strategy would pick the same files. And I also don't know how to generate the incrementals when there was never a full backup. Is that only done by looking at the files? It isn't absolutely necessary to get the latest full backups of all VMs, if I get all the latest changes every day (or week, gotta see how to fit all that into schedule) I also get some stuff to rely on ... Stefan
