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[Backup and NEW backup] what about ignoring symbolic links?
« on: September 25, 2020, 07:40:58 AM »
As already required, some kind of filed and folders exclusion could be very useful.
What I’m asking now it to exclude symbolic links from backup.
For sites with large data I often use external services like Amazon S3 mounted with s3fs-fuse or on other volume mounts.
Well, there was the default backup enabled and after some alerts from Netdata I saw the backup process
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/usr/bin/rsync -avzr --no-o --no-g --delete /home/ACCOUNT/ /mnt/bk/cwp_backup/daily/ACCOUNTworking hard, downloading 2TB of files from Amazon S3 filling my local volume (and spending $ for AWS S3 traffic).
What about adding a --no-links to the command, or better, allowing to customize/override the backup script?



Re: [Backup and NEW backup] what about ignoring symbolic links?
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2020, 11:18:46 AM »
Look at "Custom Backup" thread.

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Re: [Backup and NEW backup] what about ignoring symbolic links?
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2020, 08:17:43 AM »
Look at "Custom Backup" thread.
Thank you cynique, I’ve just seen your feedback  :)