Stefan, > 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?
I'd meant that you might be able to use level 1 to find only the latest added to the DLE on the NAS. I was not looking at the composition of the tar balls nor how they where generated, just trying to have the 'most recent' found my amanda. On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:14:31PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 29.11.2011 15:32, schrieb Jens Berg: > > On Tue Nov 29 2011 15:17:35 GMT+0100 > > br...@wadsworth.org (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 --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
