Thanks to all.
Basically, I need to save space on tape and time, becausee in the future I
will need to add more fs to the tape and I don't want to use several per
backup.
I will try with the incremental idea, and if it doesn't work for me I will
then try with gnutar. Thanks a lot!
Pablo.-
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->
->On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:06:43PM +0100, Pablo Jejcic wrote:
->> Dear List,
->> 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 should have deleted the "In-Reply-To: " header so your
->message would look like a new topic rather than a
->continuation of the one you copied.
->
->If I understand your requirements correctly, you don't want
->to waste tape space, and maybe time, dealing with certain
->file systems daily, just once per dumpcycle. This is in
->contrast to the more common request of how to exclude a
->specific directory within a file system. (The latter can't
->be done with ufsdump, only with gnutar).
->
->Two approaches, one is don't do anything. I have several
->static DLE's (disk list entries) and for their incremental
->dumps all that is written to tape is 32KB. Not a lot of tape
->wasted. But it still takes time and cpu to determine there
->is nothing to backup.
->
->The second is to define a new dumptype to use with those
->DLE's. It can include your current dumptype plus the single
->line "skip-incr". Then between level-0 dumps on those DLE's
->you will get an amreport like this:
->
-> hostname DLE 1 SKIPPED --------------------
->
->
->HTH
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->Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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