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Re: Backup by inum
2005-11-10 22:33:32
2005/11/10, Olivier Nicole <on AT cs.ait.ac DOT th>:
Hello,
I wonder if there is a set-up for Amanda to back-up files by inum
rather than by filename.
The reason would be the following: I have one machine that receives
all syslog possible for each and every of my Unix hosts. Syslog logs
are rotated every night and I keep them for one year, the total size
is about 13 GB. Due to rotation, file all.0.gz becomes all.1.gz, file
all.1.gz becomes all.2.gz etc. Files do not change a single bit, only
their filename change. But still Amanda ends up backing up all the
files every night because f the change in name which is obviously a
lost of time and of tape.
You could put the rotated logs in a different directory (say a
directory named "backed_up_logs" and exclude this directory from the
backup.
Ex: you have a directory named "logs" and a directory named
"backed_up_logs", when comes the time to rotate a log, you move it to
the backed_up_logs directory. The new log will get backed up, not the
old ones.
It's ugly, but it should work...
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