Re: [Dump-users] Inode exclusion list limitation

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:41:35PM -0700, Kirk Hoganson wrote:

> Greetings,
>     I have run into a dump problem, and I am hoping for some suggestions.
> 
> We allow users to store personal files in their home directories on a particular server.  Consequently scattered amongst the legitimate more critical files, are mp3's, mov's, avi's etc.  I was hoping to exclude these files from the tape backup rotation by using find to generate an inode exclusion list.  However, the list was over 800 entries, and will grow with more time.  Has anyone encountered a similar situation that they might be able to enlighten me on?  We need to backup the majority of the files stored on this file system, but we don't have the space to continuously backup these more frivolous files.  I don't believe that the individual users in this situation can be relied upon to store these types of files in specific directories that I could exclude.  The perfect solution (prior to becoming acquainted with the entry limit), was to use find to automatically generate a list of these dynamic files.  Any other possible suggestions would be appreciated.

The latest version of dump, released two days ago, has no more limit
on the number of inodes to be excluded.

Stelian.
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