I don't remember but I think bacula will traverse mount points so . . . "mount --bind olddir newdir" Would likely work. I do know though that there at least was an issue with differing file system types ie nfs/gfs mounts ect.
Dirk Bartley wrote: > Filesets can have exclude and include lists that are pulled in at > runtime from files. The run before script could create these lists?? > > Dirk > > > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 14:04 +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > >> hi! >> >> we have servers that operate with several independent raid arrays that >> contain (lots of) data to backup. >> >> currently we create tar files of the data-to-be-backed-up on each raid >> and would like bacula to pick it up from there. >> >> we have a script that does the tar handling that is run as >> ClientRunBeforeJob. because these servers could differ in layout, >> number of raids and other details i would prefer not to give a list of >> files to back up but just give ONE canonical location on each server >> to pick up stuff from and have the script handle the local >> configuration. I imagine it to create symbolic links to the respective >> files on the other partitions in /var/lib/bacula/ ... except - does >> bacula follow symbolic links? if not, how can i do this otherwise? >> copying over the files to the location could fail because they are too >> big to fit there, even one at a time. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
