Hi,
I'm not familiar with backing up Windows clients and the special
requirements imposed by them but I think the DLE definitions should
pretty much look the same as for Unix clients.
To split up a large home directory on one of my servers I define a DLE
for every user:
myserver /home/user1 /home {
my_backup_type
include append "./user1"
exclude append "./user1/nobackup"
} 1
Every user on that server has a "nobackup" area where she/he can put
large and/or personal stuff which wouldn't get taped. Maybe you have
something similar?
Then, in case I forget to add a new specific DLE if I create a new user
I have the following DLE:
myserver /home/x /home {
my_backup_type
exclude append "./user1"
exclude append "./user2"
exclude append "./user3"
...
} 1
So, all users I created a specific DLE for already are excluded from
this DLE which makes it backing up everything under /home I might have
forgotten to specify otherwise.
I use the same spindle number for all these DLEs because the data is on
the same physical disc. Using different (or no) spindle number would
make Amanda run several of the DLEs in parallel which would cause a lot
of disc head activity and most likely a decrease of the overall backup
speed.
Jens
On Thu May 21 2015 15:57:43 GMT+0200
[email protected] (Alan Murrell) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a Windows host I am trying to back up, on which I have the
> Zamanda client. One of the directories is really huge (it has all the
> departmental shares in it), and to make file retrieval times reasonable
> (both in terms of time and amount of data required to extract), I
> decided to break it down.
>
> I have tested entering each (departmental) sub-directory individually,
> and this works. Unfortunately, if I add more directories, I would need
> to remember to add them to the disk list.
>
> What I have tested is backing up the directories by letter (i.e., all
> the directories that start with "a", all the directories that start with
> "b", etc.), but I can't seem to make this work. The first attempt timed
> out during the estimate, so I increased the "etimeout" in my amanda.conf
> to 3600 seconds. The next attempt did not error out; it said it was
> successful, but only spent 22 seconds backing up the DLE in question. Of
> course this did not seem right, so I checked what was backed up using
> "amrecover", and of course while disklist entry was available, it could
> not find any files that were backed up.
>
> I followed the examples at "How To: Split DLEs With Exclude Lists" at
> <https://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Split_DLEs_With_Exclude_Lists>. Here
> is the DLE I created:
>
> rcav-fs01 E:/SERVER_DATA/./a E:/SERVER_DATA {
> zwc-compress
> include "./[a]*"
> } 1
>
> By the way, what does the number after the curly braces supposed to be?
> I put "1" because that was in the example I copied, but further down on
> the wiki page in another example, the number used is "2"
>
> The following DLE does work (i.e., specifying one of the sub-directories
> explicitly):
>
> rcav-fs01 E:/SERVER_DATA/accounting
>
> Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Thanks! :-)
>
> -Alan
