On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:36:07PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >... I'd like to back up at least
> >their mail, and probably web directories.
> >...
> >I've been trying to do this with exclude lists, but I haven't hit the
> >solution yet. ...
>
> Wow! I wouldn't have had the guts to try this with exclude lists.
> They give me (real :-) headaches just trying to do "normal" things :-).
Brave or stupid, I've gotten it working with some help from a LUG
member on my sh globbing. If you have a line like so in your
disklist:
myhost /home myhost-home
and the myhost-home dumptype is calling
/etc/amanda/exclude.myhost-home, which contains this:
./*/?
./*/??
./*/???
./*/?????*
./*/[!mM]???
./*/[Mm][!a]??
./*/[Mm]a[!i]?
./*/[Mm]ai[!l]
Then /home/*/Mail and /home/*/mail will be backed up.
This creation of evil could easily be extended to back up
/home/*/public_html, too, or whatever else you wanted.
> Maybe you could do it with inclusion instead of exclusion? Take a
> look at:
>
> ftp://gandalf.cc.purdue.edu/pub/amanda/gtar-wrapper.*
>
> During the pre_estimate you could run "find" to gather a list of what
> you want to back up, squirrel that away and then pass it to gtar for
> both the estimate and the real run.
Yes, but that's a compile-time option, right? As I'm a university
student and will be replaced in a few years, I don't want my successor
to be confused when apt-get dist-upgrade breaks the /home backup :)
Of course, I hope we have a bigger tape drive by then...
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--Ray
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