Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-15 15:58:18
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:54:26 -0500
On 01/15/11 14:18, Mike Ruskai wrote:
> File = "<current_file"
> 
> Then generate the file "current_file" with your script, which would 
> contain, for the above example, this:
> 
> /mnt/data/usb_disk_1/dir3/sub1/sub2/006/056
> 
> You can also do this:
> 
> File = "|print_current_file"
> 
> Where "print_current_file" would be a script that spits out the filename 
> directly, without a temporary file.
> 
> Both are executed at the time the job is run, so no Director restarts or 
> configuration reloads are necessary.

This would be at least workable, at a pinch; it would avoid the multiple
reloads.  The overhead of running this backup as 12,000 individual
single-file backup jobs is still going to just about kill you, though, IMHO.



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