On 6/30/2011 9:09 AM, C. Ronoz wrote: > > I see how you use excludes to exclude back-ups of files with specific > extensions, but then how do I now exclude specific paths per host? > > I am planning to back-up about 15 Linux webservers with different roles. Some > host specific archives that take up much space, but do not require back-ups. > e.g. 1 server hosts 50GB of downloads in /pub. Another server hosts 10GB of > internal downloads (installers, windows service packs) in > /sites/site/httpdocs/downloads.
If you control such things, it is much better to manage the sources and configurations of things that are installed on production servers with some sort of version control system instead of letting anything change that needs to be backed up on the server itself - other than perhaps upload areas and databases holding live data. This becomes increasingly important as your services start to spread over load balanced farms. > Does your set-up back up /proc as well? This seems to make doing a bare metal > recovery harder, or should I not strive for such a solution? /proc appears like a mount point, so you can use the --one-file-system option with rsync and explicitly add only filesystems you want to back up. If you do that you do have to be careful to track layout changes that might move things you want to a newly added filesystem, though. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/