Re: Provide list of files changed to avoid the crawl

2014-01-26 Thread Varun Shastry
Thanks Jean. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Jean-Louis Martineau martin...@zmanda.comwrote: Varun, You could add a pre-dle-estimate/pre-dle-backup script that put the list of files in a file and configure an 'exclude list' for amgtar to use that file. If you backup only files (no

Provide list of files changed to avoid the crawl

2014-01-24 Thread Varun Shastry
Hi experts, I came to know that amanda client/agent crawls the file system under the given path to get the list of files that have changed since the previous backup. But in my use case because of the file system size (in several TBs using any of the clustered file system) I can't afford crawl

Re: Provide list of files changed to avoid the crawl

2014-01-24 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Varun, You could add a pre-dle-estimate/pre-dle-backup script that put the list of files in a file and configure an 'exclude list' for amgtar to use that file. If you backup only files (no directory) then amanda will never notice when files are removed, so a restore will also restore