[lbackup-discussion] LBackup Configuration

[henri]

Hi Michael,

Sure, just let me know how it works out. Again, any suggestions are welcome. I think that an example post action would make sense to simplify this process. I will look into that for the next release.

Henri.

On 31/05/2012, at 8:55 PM, Michael Williams wrote:

> Hi Henri,
> 
> That's not something I'd looked into, so you're very likely right.
> 
> I'll check in with the site next week and see if it indeed rings true with this backup system.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael
> 
> On 31/05/2012, at 8:42 PM, henri wrote:
> 
>> From my research LBackup will backup across file system boundaries (I believe this is what are trying to do). I found some comments in the source code mentioning wheather the -x option should be passed to LBackup. It was decided at some point that the -x should not be passed to rsync because it was deemed that some people may want to do exactly what (I belive you are trying to do at the moment).
>> 
>> On Mac OS X the directory /Volumes is hidden. As such, when LBackup is used to create a backup of this directory it becomes hidden in the backup as well. 
>> 
>> I performed a test using "/" as the source directory and use the excludes approach listed at the following URL : http://www.lbackup.org/developer/advanced_excludes_file_examples
>> 
>> An example exlcudes.txt file I used is quoted below : 
>> 
>>> + Applications
>>> + Applications/Address Book.app/***
>>> + Volumes
>>> + Volumes/750GB
>>> + Volumes/750GB/sos/***
>>> - *
>> 
>> 
>> Basically, this resulted in the backup containing "Applications" and "Volumes" at the root level of "Section.0". However, the "Volumes" directory was hidden. 
>> 
>> There are a number of options with regards making access to the "Volumes" directory within the backup directory simple. Just one example is outlined below using a symbolic link. First you could make a symbolic link to "/Volumes" directory using the command below : 
>> 
>> cd / ; ln -s ./Volumes ./volumes.link
>> 
>> Then it is simply a matter of adding this link "voluems.link" to the backup (via the excludes file). There is an example quoted below :
>> 
>>> + Applications
>>> + Applications/Address Book.app/***
>>> + Volumes
>>> + Volumes/750GB
>>> + Volumes/750GB/sos/***
>>> + volumes.link
>>> - *
>> 
>> 
>> If you have any issues, then please let me know. 
>> 
>> There are various other approaches including some sort of pre-action script. 
>> 
>> If you have any troubles / suggestions then let me know.
>> 
>> Another approach would be to have two or more backups (as many as required to cover all the source directories you wish to backup).
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> 
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