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AW: Question: backup just 1 file

2004-08-20 02:42:28
Subject: AW: Question: backup just 1 file
From: Sebastian Kösters <skoesters AT sino DOT de>
To: "'Paul Bijnens'" <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:42:20 +0200
Thank you! Looks good ;) 


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Auftrag von Paul Bijnens
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. August 2004 14:23
An: Sebastian Kösters
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Betreff: Re: Question: backup just 1 file

Sebastian Kösters wrote:

> at the moment Amanda backups different dirs from different servers.
> 
> An entry in disklist looks like this:
> 
> server /dir hard-disk-tar
> 
> Now the question.
> 
> Is it possible to backup just a single file (like /etc/passwd for
example)?

With a recent Amanda version (at least 2.4.3), and using GNUTAR,
you can have a disklist entry like:

server  /etc/passwd /etc  {
        hard-disk-tar
        include "./passwd"
        }


Note the disklist entry is indeed 4 lines.
The first "/etc/passwd" is just an arbitary string that must be unique
in the disklist for that host (if you omit it, it is assumed equal to
the disk/topleveldirectory).
The second "/etc" is the top level directory.
You can have an inline dumptype by put a brace+newline where the
normal dumptype should be.
There we include the normal "hard-disk-tar" that you already have,
and add the "include" directive to limit only to that one file or
directory.


> 
> If yes what entry has to be made in disklist and what's about the curinfo
> and index dirs in /var/lib/amanda? 

curinfo and indexes are fine.

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