On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM, henri <shus...@connect.homeunix.com> wrote:
> > thanks for your answer , from my point of view the way to make more > > "coherent" the configuration policy is to make a file where you can put > > the list of the directories that you want to backup. In the same way of > > the excluded file > > Thank you for this feed back. > > I have some developer patches to enable this kind of behavior. I have > considered this approach. > > Essentially, with this developer branch you specify the source as the root > directory and then there is a source_list.txt which looks from that root > directory for files to backup. This uses the --files-from rsync parameter. > > The reason I have not put this into the main branch is due to the other > problems and complexity approach will introduce. > > Essentially, there will need to be more checking code in place for all > these source directories and it makes the entire configuration more complex > root path and now a bunch of files to include. > > However, primarily I am not sure I am happy with the way the backup set > looks with this approach. Although you end up with a tree which is correct > the problem is that there are files missing which are not necessarily in the > excludes list. The reason this is a problem is due to the plans to > incorporate backup validation tests into LBackup. Not having a list of files > to exclude complicates this considerably. At the moment backup validation is > the comparison of a checksum for the backup directory (not included the > excluded directories) of multiple comparisons of multiple files. It also > means that if you want to have backup scripts performing certain kinds of > operations it becomes more complicated if there is more than one source file > / directory. > > If you want this kind of functionality in the short term then I would > recommend you take a look at LSync which fully supports this kind of > configuration and will soon support an expert system backend : < > http://www.lucidsystems.org/tools/lsync> > > If you would like to run the patched version of LBackup, I will email you a > modified backup script with this functionality. However, keep in mind that > with this approach support will be very limited and until a solid way is > discovered to implement this feature (I do not think that I have found one > yet) the feature will not be included in the main LBackup branch. > > If you want this kind of functionally within a single configuration file, I > would recommend you consider at LSync or alternatively backup up the root > directory of your system and then exclude sections which you do not to have > included within the backup. In the longer term (or until a really good > approach is worked out) either of these approaches are recommended and > supported. > > Again, thank you for your feed back on the way you would like to see > LBackup work. Your ideas are very valuable with regards to the development > of LBackup. > > Thank you again. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email is protected by LBackup, an open source backup solution. > http://www.lbackup.org > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.lbackup.org > lbackup-discussion mailing list > lbackup-discussion@lists.connect.homeunix.com > http://lists.connect.homeunix.com/listinfo/lbackup-discussion >
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