Hi Henri,
I've just checked the backup system and unfortunately it's not working
as we expected it to.
The files on the boot drive are backed up as is seen in the Finder,
but the folders and files in the 2nd hard drive "/Volumes/Data/" isn't
getting backed up. I navigated into the directory in the terminal and
did an ls which didn't show any more files then were shown in the
Finder. The amount of space used on the backup drive also indicates
that the files aren't backed up there.
I'm going to send you the backup config files in a private email for
you to have a look at, possibly I've done something wrong there.
Regards,
Michael
On 31/05/2012, at 9:38 PM, henri wrote:
Hi Michael,
Sure, just let me know how it works out. Again, any suggestions are
welcome. I think that an example post action would make sense to
simplify this process. I will look into that for the next release.
Henri.
On 31/05/2012, at 8:55 PM, Michael Williams wrote:
Hi Henri,
That's not something I'd looked into, so you're very likely right.
I'll check in with the site next week and see if it indeed rings
true with this backup system.
Regards,
Michael
On 31/05/2012, at 8:42 PM, henri wrote:
From my research LBackup will backup across file system boundaries
(I believe this is what are trying to do). I found some comments
in the source code mentioning wheather the -x option should be
passed to LBackup. It was decided at some point that the -x should
not be passed to rsync because it was deemed that some people may
want to do exactly what (I belive you are trying to do at the
moment).
On Mac OS X the directory /Volumes is hidden. As such, when
LBackup is used to create a backup of this directory it becomes
hidden in the backup as well.
I performed a test using "/" as the source directory and use the
excludes approach listed at the following URL : http://www.lbackup.org/developer/advanced_excludes_file_examples
An example exlcudes.txt file I used is quoted below :
+ Applications
+ Applications/Address Book.app/***
+ Volumes
+ Volumes/750GB
+ Volumes/750GB/sos/***
- *
Basically, this resulted in the backup containing "Applications"
and "Volumes" at the root level of "Section.0". However, the
"Volumes" directory was hidden.
There are a number of options with regards making access to the
"Volumes" directory within the backup directory simple. Just one
example is outlined below using a symbolic link. First you could
make a symbolic link to "/Volumes" directory using the command
below :
cd / ; ln -s ./Volumes ./volumes.link
Then it is simply a matter of adding this link "voluems.link" to
the backup (via the excludes file). There is an example quoted
below :
+ Applications
+ Applications/Address Book.app/***
+ Volumes
+ Volumes/750GB
+ Volumes/750GB/sos/***
+ volumes.link
- *
If you have any issues, then please let me know.
There are various other approaches including some sort of pre-
action script.
If you have any troubles / suggestions then let me know.
Another approach would be to have two or more backups (as many as
required to cover all the source directories you wish to backup).
Hope this helps.
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