When I backup /home, I exclude /*/tmp/
Anything that should not get backed up goes in /home/username/tmp, or
any subdirectory of that folder. It's not exactly what you're looking
for, but I've found it to be a workable solution.
-Rob
John Rouillard wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Our current backup system (hdup) allows the user to prune directories
> from the backups. So I can backup the /home share and have a user
> create
>
> /home/user/data/lots_of_junk_data_that_doesnt_need_backup/.nobackup.
>
> that file will prevent the backup of
>
> /home/user/data/lots_of_junk_data_that_doesnt_need_backup
>
> recursively. To do this with backuppc, I was planning on using a
> DumpPreShareCmd to create /tmp/share.backup.exclude.<random_id> file
> that looks like:
>
> /user/data/lots_of_junk_data_that_doesnt_need_backup
>
> and changing the rsync command options to include:
>
> --exclude-from /tmp/share.backup.exclude
>
> Does anybody see an issue with this? Does anybody do something
> similar?
>
> It would be useful to have the main config file settings available in
> the per host config files. That way a per host config file could use a
> default "homes.pm" file that adds /homes to the default share list
> from config.pl and could also augment the default RsyncArgs to add the
> --exclude-file option as well as augmenting the DumpPreShareCmd. So you
> could do a:
>
> $Conf{DumpPreShareCmd} .= "&& /etc/admin/bin/mkdirexclude $share";
>
>
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