Hi all:
We tell our users that ~user/bak will be backed up and they can
symbolically link in any directories/files they want backed up.
To make this work with backuppc and rsync, it means adding the -L or
--copy-links option to the rsync command. However I only want it when
backing up those particular directories (shares) and not say when
backing up / or /usr.
Does anybody have any ideas for modifying the rsync options on a per
share basis? I was thinking of something similar to the structure for:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'c' => ['/temp', '/winnt/tmp'], # these are for 'c' share
'*' => ['/junk', '/dont_back_this_up'], # these are for other shares
};
Does this seem reasonable? Then I could do:
$Conf{RsyncShareArgs} = {
'/home/user1/bak' => ['--copy-links' ],
};
The only workaround I can thing of right now is to define a new host
and override the $Conf{RsyncArgs} in there. However this is less than
optimal since I can't inherit the RsyncArgs from the main
configuration file and augment them, I have to maintain them
separately from the main config file.
This is also a problem when I have hosts over the wan and I have to
bandwidth limit them. I can't just add in some way --bwlimit=128 I
have to duplicate the entire $Conf{RsyncArgs} variable definition.
Does anybody have another workaround?
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-- rouilj
John Rouillard
System Administrator
Renesys Corporation
603-643-9300 x 111
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