Ah, after reading Bill's response, I think I responded to the wrong question.
Bacula will not follow symlinks when backing up data as Bill said.
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 17:10, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:12, Janco van der Merwe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Before wasting valuable time in testing can someone tell me how Bacula
> > will react with softlinks? Is it worth going that route? To give you an
idea on the
> > one server it has 3 partitions and the aim is to backup the last 3 months
of data
> > but the twist is that the directories and partitions of where the data is
will change
> > from month to month. What we thought is creating a backup dir on the /
partition
> > and then a script that creates softlinks to the required directories
within the /backup
> > dir which brings me to the above question will Bacula follow the
softlinks?
>
> If you are soft linking Volume names, yes, which probably means fixed
> Volume names pre-labeled. If you are trying to soft link directories
> (i.e. disk "Archive device"), I'm not sure. I use this technique to have
Bacula disk
> backup where the total data of all the Volumes is larger than a single hard
disk.
>
> Example:
> In directory /files/havana an "ls -l"
> total 76652132
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0001
-> /files1/havana/Diff-0001
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 215321044 Aug 27 01:10 Diff-0002
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0003
-> /files1/havana/Diff-0003
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 262084337 Sep 17 01:10 Diff-0004
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0005
-> /files1/havana/Diff-0005
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 139985294 Sep 10 01:06 Diff-0006
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0007
-> /files1/havana/Diff-0007
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 72443800 Oct 8 01:07 Diff-0008
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Diff-0009
-> /files1/havana/Diff-0009
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 3556777231 Jul 23 01:11 Diff-0010
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Full-0001
-> /files1/havana/Full-0001
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 9550073756 Aug 6 02:31 Full-0002
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Full-0003
-> /files1/havana/Full-0003
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 9717336948 Sep 3 02:33 Full-0004
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Full-0005
-> /files1/havana/Full-0005
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 28482069327 May 7 01:56 Full-0006
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 20 2004 Full-0007
-> /files1/havana/Full-0007
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 21896443859 Jul 2 01:45 Full-0008
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jul 20 2004 Inc-0001
-> /files1/havana/Inc-0001
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 234899641 Sep 26 01:06 Inc-0002
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jul 20 2004 Inc-0003
-> /files1/havana/Inc-0003
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 2988337776 Sep 5 01:06 Inc-0004
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 234663813 Sep 19 01:05 Inc-0005
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 1064598374 Oct 10 01:06 Inc-0006
>
> Note, /files1/havana is a different hard disk. Bacula only knows about
> /files/havana. From SD conf file:
>
> Device {
> Name = FileStorage
> Media Type = File
> Archive Device = /files/havana
> LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
> Random Access = Yes;
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> RemovableMedia = no;
> AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
>
> Interesting. You can see the date when I added the second harddisk, and
> Bacula has just continued backing up and recycling ever since with no
> manual intervention other than me doing 1 or 2 upgrades.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Kern
>
> >
> > Janco v.d Merwe
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