Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] filesets and symbolic links

2009-06-29 13:21:55
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] filesets and symbolic links
From: Dirk Bartley <dbartley AT schupan DOT com>
To: Andreas Schuldei <schuldei+bacula-users AT spotify DOT com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:15:50 -0400
Filesets can have exclude and include lists that are pulled in at
runtime from files.  The run before script could create these lists??

Dirk


On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 14:04 +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> hi!
> 
> we have servers that operate with several independent raid arrays that
> contain (lots of) data to backup.
> 
> currently we create tar files of the data-to-be-backed-up on each raid
> and would like bacula to pick it up from there.
> 
> we have a script that does the tar handling that is run as
> ClientRunBeforeJob. because these servers could differ in layout,
> number of raids and other details i would prefer not to give a list of
> files to back up but just give ONE canonical location on each server
> to pick up stuff from and have the script handle the local
> configuration. I imagine it to create symbolic links to the respective
> files on the other partitions in /var/lib/bacula/ ... except - does
> bacula follow symbolic links? if not, how can i do this otherwise?
> copying over the files to the location could fail because they are too
> big to fit there, even one at a time.
> 
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