Raúl Wild-Spain wrote:
Hi!
I've found into the amanda documentation (FAQ.gz) various ways to perform a
backup. I've some doubts because my english is a little bad ( I'm spanish and
my alternative language is french) and I would like to make some questions
about this. The FAQ says the following:
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You may create short-named links in some directory
closer to the root (/) so as to reduce the length of names. I.e.,
instead of backing up /usr/home/foo and /usr/home/bar, create the
following links:
/.foo -> /usr/home/foo
/.bar -> /usr/home/bar
then list /.foo and /.bar in the disklist.
This case works because the toplevel symlink (/.foo) is resolved
by amanda before starting the dump/gnutar program. This is similar to
the way amanda fill in disknames (/dev/hda7) or mountpoints (/home),
depending on what program does the backujp
Symlinks inside /usr/home/foo are not resolved.
Another approach is to group sub-directories in backup sets,
instead of backing up them all separately. For example, create
/usr/home/.bkp1 and move `foo' and `bar' into it, then create links so
that the original pathnames remain functional. Then, list
/usr/home/.bkp1 in the disklist. You may create as many `.bkp<N>'
directories as you need.
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then, my doubt is the following: if I create a hidden directory /.furvbackup and
into this a make some soft-links to the areas I want to backup, does it will work
right? and another, I suppose there isn't problem to backup directories ( not
partitions or disks) with amanda, is it right?, example, into disk list ->
mypc /path/to/directory always-full
If your disklist contains
mypc /.furvbackup always-full
then symlinks INSIDE /.furvbackup are NOT resolved, and your backup
will contain only a few Kbytes.
Best regards,
Raúl
rcruz AT wild-spain DOT com
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