Amanda-Users

Re: How-To Exclude files from a ufsdump backup

2003-08-08 11:12:16
Subject: Re: How-To Exclude files from a ufsdump backup
From: Niall O Broin <niall AT linux DOT ie>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:09:17 +0100
On Friday 08 August 2003 15:06, Pablo Jejcic wrote:

>               I have Amanda working without problems on our network, and
> backing up many directories using ufsdump (on solaris 9).
>               Now, we have a new project which will need a lot of static
> information, and I don't want to backup it everyday, but they still need a
> full fs for theirselfs. Therefore, how can I exclude some files/directories
> from a ufsdump backup?

You can't exclude some files/directories from a ufsdump backup but you don't 
have to - amanda uses ufsdump with levels and won't backup all that static 
information everyday - it will only be backed up when there's a level 0 dump 
done, which is as a rule once per dumpcycle.


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Niall