On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Craig Barratt wrote:
> To decouple the removable media from your regular backups you
> could setup another virtual backup host (eg: HOST-extDrive)
> that just backs up the removable media. You should set
> $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to point HOST-extDrive at HOST.
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Jason Hughes wrote:
> If you want to do this completely on the client's side, you could
> Google for junction points. They're symbolic links for Windows,
> allowing you to make an empty subdirectory somewhere on your client
> and junction in the removable drive. I think that would give you
> what you want without changing the backup server config.
Thanks, both of you, for your suggestions. I like the first approach,
as it will give me a way to have a reminder emailed if I forget to let
it do a backup after N days. I may use these junction points for a
different project, though, so thanks for the head's up on them!
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Regards,
joe
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