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December 10th, 2009 01:00
How to create only one local directive on Unix to skip/backup filesystems
I want to create only one local directive on a node in the root directory where I can specify which filesystems to backup and which to skip. (As described in esg 54408). I have created directive .nsr in / :
<< / >>
uasm:tmp
skip:*
So in the above example it should skip everything, but only backup /tmp. I kicked off the backup for this client from the GUI and it parses the directive, but then backs up all everything as usual. The client is not configured with a global directive and "All" is set. Can this local directive be used for a scheduled backup or manual backup from the GUI? The idea is to have one single local direcrive on the system, which can be managed by the system administrators.
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December 10th, 2009 01:00
Try just revrsing the sequence as:
<< / >>
skip:*
uasm:tmp
I hope it should work
Stephanus_4654f0
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December 10th, 2009 01:00
HCLBACKUP
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December 10th, 2009 02:00
If you want to backup only /tmp then you can try this.
<>
skip: *.*
<
forget
This works with global directive. I am not 100% sure with local directive.
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December 10th, 2009 03:00
Stephanus_4654f0
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December 10th, 2009 03:00
vsemaska
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December 10th, 2009 06:00
I've noticed that when you use local directives on Unix systems you have to specify relative paths and not absolute paths. So try this in your /.nsr file:
<< ./ >>
skip: * .*
<< ./tmp >>
forget
pheikens
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December 10th, 2009 07:00
Please try the .nsr file like this, without '<< / >>' and include blanks after the colons:
uasm: tmp
+skip: * .?*
Stephanus_4654f0
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December 11th, 2009 01:00
After doing some extensive testing and carefully reading esg54408 again, here are the results :
It seems as if one wants only one local directive in /, you have to make use of headers i.e. you have to specify the filesystems in a header. If you create a header << / >>, it will only follow the directories in /, not the mounted filesystems, for example if you only want to backup the directory "etc", you do the folllowing:
<< / >>
uasm: etc
skip: *
etc a directory under / (and not a mounted filesystem) gets backed up and all other directories under / are skipped. If you want to skip another mounted filesytem, say /usr, you have to create the header and use skip i.e.
<< /usr >>
+skip: *
The mounted filesystems are not skipped under / if you specify skip and if you specify +skip (with or without the << / >> header), then all mounted filesystems are skipped.
uasm can be used multiple times under a header to backup only certain directories.
I have also tested the absolute and relative paths and both works when the directive is in /.
Message was edited by: Stephanus
Message was edited by: Stephanus