Topic: Selective Backup

[Baronne Mouton]

wossup? can I do a selective backup? ie. exclude stuff like mp3s and various other folders?

shup

baronne.

[Brad Schneider]

I'm looking into this too.  I'm looking at option in the /etc/flexbackup.conf.  Paticularly the exclude_expr.   Does anyone out there know how to exclude an I-bay during automatic backup?  Or exclude file types during automatic backup.  Or both.

Thanks,
Brad

[Brad Schneider]

I'm looking into this too.  I'm looking at option in the /etc/flexbackup.conf.  Paticularly the exclude_expr.   Does anyone out there know how to exclude an I-bay during automatic backup?  Or exclude file types during automatic backup.  Or both.

Thanks,
Brad

[Filippo Carletti]

exclude_expr works, but you have to change backup format from dump to tar or cpio.
To exclude ibay named mp3 you'd write
$exclude_expr[2] = '/mp3/';

[Geoff]

To exclude ibay named mp3 you'd write
$exclude_expr[2] = '/mp3/';

Just out of interest, does this exclude only an ibay or _any_ directory called "mp3" ?

Geoff

[brian read]

>but you have to change backup format from dump to tar or cpio

I've just tried the exclude_exprs, and it seems to have backed up ok, but I didn't change any format in the felxbackup.conf file.

What's the issue here?

Brian