Difference between revisions of "Talk:Backup with dar"

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To backup up to workstation as a one-off, not a scheduled event, run

/sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk

However note that scheduled backups must be enabled for the above command to work.

This is mentioned in the text, but not how to use it.

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-== Add how to exclude an ibay from the backup? ==
-Should there also be added a section on how to avoid an ibay being backed up. You may not want to back up an ibay that is a mirror for instance.
-create a custom template, 45prune, in /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/dar/DailyBackup.dcf/
-{
-    my @excludes = ('home/e-smith/files/ibays/ibaytoexclude1','home/e-smith/files/ibays/ibaytoexclude2');
-    foreach my $dir ( @excludes ) {
-        $OUT .= "--prune $dir\n";
-    }
-}
-expand-template /etc/dar/DailyBackup.dcf
 == Add how to start a one-off backup? ==