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A. Khattri wrote: |
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> My problem is this: flexbackup cannot be used to backup *part* of a |
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> filesystem - for example, it makes no sense to backup /usr/portage when |
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> making a backup of /usr. |
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I use flexbackup here and it does this for me, however the downside is |
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that it cannot do multiple storage types at once (that I could find), so |
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you have to create a separate configuration for each storage type. (Pass |
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-c filename.conf to flexbackup) |
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Here's some examples from my config: |
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$type = 'tar'; |
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$set{'user-vericgar'} = "/home/vericgar"; |
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$prune{'/home/vericgar'} = "attachments downloads"; |
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$xx = 0; |
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$exclude_expr[$xx++] = '.*/[Cc]ache.*/.*'; |
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$exclude_expr[$xx++] = '.*/\.xvpics/.*'; |
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$exclude_expr[$xx++] = '.*/\.gaim/logs/.*'; |
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$exclude_expr[$xx++] = '.*/\.gaim/icons/.*'; |
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$exclude_expr[$xx++] = '.*/\.pornview/.*'; |
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$exclude_expr[$xx++] = '.*/\.thumbnails/.*'; |
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$exclude_expr[$xx++] = '.*/\.Junk.*'; |
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One of either prune or exclude should work for you. What it does is run |
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a find command using those as excludes and then passes the list to |
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backup to tar (in this case, or whatever utility you prefer). |
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Note the key to $prune needs to match exactly the value of the $set for |
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one of the backup sets. The $exclude_expr runs against all sets. |
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Michael Stewart vericgar@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~vericgar |
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