Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] A different backup every day...

2008-08-28 10:22:20
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] A different backup every day...
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <lists AT truthisfreedom.org DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:22:03 -0400
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:05:08 -0400
> Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:
> 
>> Can this new directory be placed within a fixed point every day?
>>
>> Your backup then becomes simple: you backup the parent directory.
> 
> Except that the data from the previous days is also held on the system
> and the parent directory of "today's" work will also hold "yesterday's"
> work (and quite possibly the day before that!)

I expected that.

Do a symlink to today's work from a known parent directory.  Allow your 
FileSet to follow symlinks (I think that's an option).

-- 
Dan Langille

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