Hello,

On 22/06/2010 Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Jonas Meurer <jonas AT freesources DOT org> 
> wrote:
> > I would like to backup a single file from a huge directory.
> > Unfortunately it's neither possible to store the file in a subdirectory,
> > nor to backup the whole directory. The file in question is a self-
> > compiled library which needs to be stored in /usr/lib.
> >
> > Currently I hardlink the library file to a subdir in /root, which is
> > backupped anyway. But in order to make system restore easier in case of
> > a crash, I'd like to backup all non-package data at the exact same place
> > as on the system.
> >
> > Is it possible to backup a single file at all? If i give the file as
> > argument to $Conf{RsyncShareName}, backuppc exits with an error.
> >
> > I found nothing regarding this question in either backuppc documentation
> > or list archives.
> 
> You'll still need to specify the share name as the directory but then
> also specify the specific file to backup using the BackupFilesOnly
> configuration setting[1].

Great, indeed that works. Thanks a lot for the hint.

greetings,
 jonas

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