Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Rewrite filepath on backup

2009-12-26 12:00:26
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Rewrite filepath on backup
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Özgür <hinoglu AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:57:55 -0500
Özgür wrote:
>>> is it possible to modify the pathname of the backed up file on the fly?
>>> say /etc/passwd is backed up from node1, node2, node3.. is it sane and 
>>> possible 
>>> to make bacula write the backup as /node1/etc/passwd? 
>> Why do you want to do that?  Usually the WHY of what you want to do 
>> tells us more than a proposed solution.
> 
> My purpose is to be able to separate and search more eficiently in catalogs 
> or there will be similar named files backed up from ~200 servers, where 
> each server is a base for a few products based on same framework and other 
> files such as logs, configuration and stuff. differentiating the files 
> according to path instead of job names will be much easier for searching and 
> restoring.

How is it you are searching the Catalog?  With bconsole or SQL?

With either search tool, you can restrict searches by the backup host.

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