Re: full/partial query

Mr R G Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote:

> I currently backup a small file server using star and fssnap as shown in the 
> star man page. Thanks Jörg for this example :)
>
> I follow the modified towers incremental approach as described in Unix Backup 
> and recovery, C.Preston, O'Reilly..
>
> thusly
>
> 0 3 2 5 4 7 6 1 3 2 etc
>
> giving me monthly 0's and weekly 1's and a reliable mix in between.
>
> The 0 is large enough to warrant burning a CD for the dump and I also choose CD 
> for level 1's. The rest are uploaded.
>
> The intermediate increments are generally quite small but i've noticed that if I 
>   create a pattern to exclude.....
>
> EXCLUDE="-V pat=\*\.mozilla/\*/Cache/\*"
>
> and drop this in the mix it drops my backups down CONSIDERABLY! Each user has 
> around 23MB of hashed Cache files that I consider not worth backing up.... not 
> when I would like to upload to numerous places and the inclusion of said files 
> makes a dump of 85MB instead of 7MB.

A full backup is a full backup.

If you exclude parts of a full filesystem, we talk about a partial
backup. This is exactly the same as with ufsdump/ufsrestore.

Jörg

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