I don't remember but I think bacula will traverse mount points so . . .
"mount --bind olddir newdir"
Would likely work. I do know though that there at least was an issue 
with differing file system types ie nfs/gfs mounts ect.


Dirk Bartley wrote:
> 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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