Thanks Jean.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]>wrote: > Varun, > > You could add a pre-dle-estimate/pre-dle-backup script that put the list > of files in a file and configure an 'exclude list' for amgtar to use that > file. > > If you backup only files (no directory) then amanda will never notice when > files are removed, so a restore will also restore removed files. > > Jean-Louis > > > On 01/24/2014 09:09 AM, Varun Shastry wrote: > >> Hi experts, >> >> I came to know that amanda client/agent crawls the file system under the >> given path to get the list of files that have changed since the previous >> backup. But in my use case because of the file system size (in several TBs >> using any of the clustered file system) I can't afford crawl every time. >> But there is a utility I use, which gives me list of files changed for any >> given two points in time. My main question here is that, >> >> Is there any method I could use to provide the list of files changed to >> the amanda client so that I can avoid amanda from crawling? If its there >> can I have some pointers to go through it? >> >> Thanks >> Varun Shastry >> >> PS: I agree, for full fledged backup crawling suggested, but with the >> above method I can at least avoid crawling for differential/incremental >> backups. >> > >
