Exclude usine dump?
Hi Using 2.4.5p1 on linux and wondering if its possible to exclude a directory from the backup using dump? I presume not and if not what would be the inpact of not having a holding disk? Scenerio is that i'm backing up a box and one of the partitions contains data that has to be backed up but also contains the holding disk. I presume that having the holding disk on a partition thats getting backed up is a bad thing.
Re: Exclude usine dump?
Tom Brown wrote: Hi Using 2.4.5p1 on linux and wondering if its possible to exclude a directory from the backup using dump? I presume not and if not what would be the inpact of not having a holding disk? Scenerio is that i'm backing up a box and one of the partitions contains data that has to be backed up but also contains the holding disk. I presume that having the holding disk on a partition thats getting backed up is a bad thing. man amanda.conf, DUMPTYPE defitions: holdingdisk boolean Default: yes. Whether a holding disk should be used for these backups or whether they should go directly to tape. If the holding disk is a portion of another file system that Amanda is backing up, that file system should refer to a dumptype with holdingdisk set to no to avoid backing up the holding disk into itself. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology ServicesTel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUMFax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... Are you sure? ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***
Re: Exclude usine dump?
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 09:42, Tom Brown wrote: Hi Using 2.4.5p1 on linux and wondering if its possible to exclude a directory from the backup using dump? I presume not and if not what would be the inpact of not having a holding disk? Scenerio is that i'm backing up a box and one of the partitions contains data that has to be backed up but also contains the holding disk. I presume that having the holding disk on a partition thats getting backed up is a bad thing. In that event, excluding a dir is something dump cannot do so you will need to use tar, and make individual dle's out of the subdirs in that partition, or exclude the holding disk directory with the usual ./name_of_dir pattern in either an exclude file named in the dumptype, or in the dumptypes own option list. Haveing smaller, individual directories as many dle's shrinks the data per dle, and allows amanda to do a better job of balanceing over extended time periods. It has no effect on the total time to do the backup that I've been able to detect. AFAIK, there isn't any limit to the number of dle's you can define, I have 48 ATM, but be sure and use spindle numbers to identify each physical disk uniquely so that jobs on a given disk are properly serialized, else the seeking for the different dirs will eat enough time to slow the backup down a bit, and supposedly the drives will last longer if the seek mechanism isn't thrashed so much. I don't know if the spindle numbers are reusable on a different client, so each disk gets a different number here on general principles. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
