[webmin-l] file system backup - split by directory

[Pat Erler <perler@gm...>]

hi,

i backup my users /home directory partition with the file system backup to
an ftp server. the resulting file get's quite large and for restoring one
subdir (ie /home/peter) i need to reget the whole 80 gb file and extract the
file from there (the restore functionality never quite worked for me, i need
to know how the tar.gz file is named, how the file to be restored is named
etc, it's very easy to make a mistakes there).

much easier it would be to have all first level subdirs in sepeate files
(like "df --max-depth=1") - could you implement such a thing, jamie?

regards,

PAT

Re: [webmin-l] file system backup - split by directory

[Jamie Cameron <jcameron@we...>]

   On 12/Jun/2009 05:51 Pat Erler wrote ..

     hi,
     i backup my users /home directory partition with the file system backup to
     an ftp server. the resulting file get's quite large and for restoring one
     subdir (ie /home/peter) i need to reget the whole 80 gb file and extract
     the file from there (the restore functionality never quite worked for me,
     i need to know how the tar.gz file is named, how the file to be restored
     is named etc, it's very easy to make a mistakes there).
     much easier it would be to have all first level subdirs in sepeate files
     (like "df --max-depth=1") - could you implement such a thing, jamie?

   I don't think that would be so easy unfortunately .. the backup is done
   using the tar command, which doesn't have the ability to split by directory
   like that.
   How many home directories do you have? Perhaps a better solution would be to
   create separate backups for each one ..
    - Jamie

Re: [webmin-l] file system backup - split by directory

[Pat Erler <perler@gm...>]

around 100, so no, that's not really feasable. a mechanism to create
multiple backups with a kind of preprocessor could help here...

PAT

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 18:30, Jamie Cameron <jcameron@...> wrote:

> On 12/Jun/2009 05:51 Pat Erler wrote ..
>
> hi,
>
> i backup my users /home directory partition with the file system backup to
> an ftp server. the resulting file get's quite large and for restoring one
> subdir (ie /home/peter) i need to reget the whole 80 gb file and extract the
> file from there (the restore functionality never quite worked for me, i need
> to know how the tar.gz file is named, how the file to be restored is named
> etc, it's very easy to make a mistakes there).
>
> much easier it would be to have all first level subdirs in sepeate files
> (like "df --max-depth=1") - could you implement such a thing, jamie?
>
> I don't think that would be so easy unfortunately .. the backup is done
> using the tar command, which doesn't have the ability to split by directory
> like that.
> How many home directories do you have? Perhaps a better solution would be
> to create separate backups for each one ..
>
>  - Jamie
>
>
>
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