On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 05:24:00PM +0000, Jens Theisen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a way to control what in a disk given in the disklist should be
> backed up, when only access to this disk is given?
> 
> I'm thinking of a user controlling what should be backed up by putting
> something in his home directory. Clearly it can be undesirable to backup
> it all; one might want all configuration files, but not the software
> intalled there.

Assuming you are backing up with gnutar, not dump,
have you read the docs or the amanda.conf comments
and checked out the "exclude" and "include" directives?

If each user's home directory is a separate disklist entry (DLE)
then this should be simple.

If your DLE is backing up a higher level directory, say say a
single DLE of /home rather than separate DLEs like /home/jens
and /home/jon, then you might have to play some games.  You
could tell your users to put their excludes/includes in some
file name you specify, say ~/.backup-exclude and ~/.backup-include.
Then as part of the cronjob that runs amdump, run a script that
combines all the users exclude/include files into single master
files that are used by amanda.

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