Amanda-Users

Re: Specifying certain subdirectories for smb mounted backups

2004-01-15 10:59:32
Subject: Re: Specifying certain subdirectories for smb mounted backups
From: "Bryan K. Walton" <zxcvbnm AT decentralized DOT org>
To: Fran Fabrizio <fran AT cis.uab DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:58:28 -0600
Thanks for the tip Fran!!

-Bryan

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:48:58AM -0600, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> 
> Yes, you would want to do this in your disklist:
> 
> server.company.com //server/c$/stuff comp-user-tar
> 
> but in your /etc/amandapass, you'd still want the entry to be just for
> //server/c$
> 
> Amanda takes everything afterwards ("stuff" in your case) and passes it
> to smbclient's -D flag.
> 
> -Fran
> 
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 09:36, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When using Amanda to backup windows computers, is there a way to
> > specify that I only want to back up a certain directory in that
> > windows share?  For example, if on //server/c$ there exists a
> > directory call "stuff", is there a way to specify that I only want
> > Amanda to backup that directory instead of all of the c$?
> > 
> > Thank you!!
> > Bryan Walton
> --