Re: [webmin-l] FSdumpdoesn't exitif the runafter scriptexits withanerror

[Kaiser, H. <r_...@gm...>]

> > I found the next bug/feature request.
> > 
> > dump backups ony the inodes of one filesystem. But for backups it
> > would be more sensible to backup all ext2/ext3 filesystems of the
> > given path.
> > For example:
> > - you create a task to backup /
> > - under /mnt/ you have 2 additional filesystems mounted
> > => webmin/dump will only backup the filesystem under with the / is
> > mounted, the other two under /mnt get ommited and without any
> > warning...
> > 
> > Would it be easily possible to extend the webmin backup to backup
> > also the mounted filesystems under the given path?
> > 
> > regards
> 
> Hi Hans,
> That would be tricky, as a single dump command can only backup one
> filesystem. There is no way that I can think of to have several dumps
> written to the same destination file, apart from appending them one
> after another .. which would make restores impossible.
> 
> Personally, I would recommand tar format backups if you want to span
> multiple filesystems.

Hello Jamie,

I tried the tar format, but here is the problem, that there is no option
to exclude directories or files.
In fsdump/dump it is possible to use chattr +d <dir> to exclude the dirs
and files from backups. Herein I usually add huge files like images of
clients, which must not go into the backups. It is only for the case,
that the clients hdd dies. And this is not so important, as the option,
that all files fit onto one media.

Therefore my question: Is there an possibility/option in tar format to
exclude dirs or files from the backup?

regards