On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 08:41:31AM -0700, Knut E. Meidal wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > >I have one mundane and one exotic feature request. > > > > > > > <Snip mundane...> > > > > >The exotic request is that one can munge the path of files backed up, > >or at least strip off leading parts. My motivation is that I will be > >backing up using snapshots, so if I want /a/b I will actually get > >/snapshot/a/b. It would be handy if this actually appeared as a > >backup of /a/b. > > > >I see that on restore one can specify an arbitrary path as the restore > >root. The option I am interested in is the inverse to that operation. > > > > > > > > > The main backup system at my site is CommVault Galaxy, and it has is > this exact feature. Very handy sometimes. It actually has 2 flavors of > this "Preserve Source Path" function: > "Preserve x levels from the end of the source path" > "Remove x levels from the beginning of the source path" > > The remove function is the one I use the most. Dumps the data exactly > where needed with no need to mv directories etc. > > I was also planning on making this feature request, but Ross beat me to it > It should probably go to the devel list also, but I'm not on that one. > > Knut >
One of the not straightforward parts of the request is deciding exactly where it goes. For example, the client file director could lie about the true path. Or the server could know, but strip off the extra stuff. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
