RE: Single file backup using SAMBA

[Francisco de Asís Miralles Argente]

Sorry, I try to do the backup with SAMBA, and when I use the "include"
option i get this message: [samba does not support include file], and I
don't want to use the exclude option because there are a lot of files in
this directory.



Francisco de Asís Miralles Argente wrote:

>  
>     I tried to backup only one file that is in a directory with other 
> files in a windows client, but I don't get any way to do it.
>  


The obvious DLE way does not work:

    your.host    /path/to/the/file    comp-user-tar

because dump and tar need a directory path; gnutar is given
the command "gnutar ... --directory /path/to/the/file ..."
so it needs a directory (or a symlink to a directory).

I never tried it, but recently you can also specify include lists when
using gnutar.  Maybe something like this works:

   your.host  file-bup /path/to/parent/dir {
        comp-user-tar
        include "./file"
        } 1



(Not tried myself, but curious if it works...)