On 7/24/07, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/24/07, Jordi Moles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hi, i don't know if what i'm trying to do is actually possible, i've
> > been googleing for days with no anwers at all.
> >
> > i perform a backup every night from many servers.
> > one of them has grown so much that it made me realize i would need a new
> > bacula-dir configuration. It turns out that this servers has to store
> > over 300 gigabytes for every "Full Backup", so it takes 40 hours at
> > least to do so.
> >
> > I was thinking i could do something like this:
> >
> > on 1st monday of every month--> full backup from /usr/home/a*
> > on 2nd--> full backup from /usr/home/b*
> > and so on....
> >
> > so...
> >
> > i wrote the first fileset which would be something like that:
> >
> > FileSet {
> > Name = "homesA"
> > Include{
> > Options {
> > signature = MD5
> > Compression = GZIP
> > exclude = yes
> > wilddir = */bacula-restores
> > }
> > # Fitxers a fer backup
> > File = /usr/home/a*
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > first of all... would that be ok? would that only backup /usr/home/a*
> > excluding the any path including /bacula-restores?
> >
> This sounds correct. I have done partial backups like that in the past.
>
> John
>
Also if this is a corporate environment, when dealing with users home
directories and files, I tend to not backup their media files, like
mp3's and movie files unless it's part of their job. You'll find
yourself backing up a lot of things that are unecessary to business
needs so eliminating such things will save you on space, time and your
sanity.
-Drew
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