Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Filechange during backup

[Neil]

Hi

So you would need something with LVM snapshot like capabilities on the FreeBSD 
boxes?

Back to the problem
What are you trying to get from var?

perhaps rdiff-backup isn't the best tool for log files anyway unless you are 
filtering them at some later point and want to keep before and after

could using a syslog server be a better solution for the changing logs? 
maillogs will happily go that way, though it might give web (apache?) 
problems if you have high load
could run syslog server on a box with lvm and have the snapshot you need

then rdiff-backup everything apart from the logs

that should reduce the problem, not remove it though

Neil
On Friday 07 January 2005 11:03, Olav Langeland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe I should give some more details. Backupserver is Linux with LVM,
> clients are FreeBSD with just straight /var, /local etc. mounted dirs.
> rdiff-backup version is v0.12.7. I was hoping to backup /var and include
> all current logs in that backuprun.
>
> -olav
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Neil [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: 7. januar 2005 11:56
> > To: address@hidden
> > Cc: Olav Langeland
> > Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Filechange during backup
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > one good workaround if you can is to use and lvm snapshot
> > you take a snapshot and back that up then remove the snapshot
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html
> > Neil