epsobolik Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 I need to archive quite a lot of folders from a server - not all of them, but a lot of them. They are organized in multiple, nested folders: FolderA SubFolderA1 SubSubFolderA1a SubSubFolderA1b SubFolderA2 SubSubFolderA2a SubSubFolderA2b FolderB SubFolderB1 SubSubFolderB1a SubSubFolderB1b SubFolderB2 SubSubFolderB2a SubSubFolderB2b There are many Folders, SubFolders, and SubSubFolders. I want to backup some of the SubSubFolders to tape. SubSubFolderA1a, SubSubFolderA2a, SubSubFolderB2a, etc. I can write a script/program to generate the list of SubSubFolders fairly easily. Going through the list of all of the folders and checking off the ones I want is 1) tedious, 2) time-consuming, and 3) error-prone. Is there a way to run a Retrospect backup via script or program? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 Is there a way to run a Retrospect backup via script or program? Not that I know of. How much data will be backed up if you simply backup FolderA and FolderB (in GB)? How much data will be backed up if you only backup the subsub-folders (in GB)? How much "extra" data is backed up (in GB)? (Subtract the values above.) EDIT: What kind of tapes do you use? LTO4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epsobolik Posted September 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 There are a total of 540GB. I hope to back up around half. We use LTO5 tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 You would need one tape anyway (and a lot of free space, too), so the extra data will not cost you anything. It would have been different if it required to use two EXTRA tapes and if you do it once a week (or every day). Then the cost would be something to consider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scillonian Posted September 29, 2013 Report Share Posted September 29, 2013 If there is sufficient cominality between the names of the folders that need to archived and those that don't it may be possible to use a custom selector. As a simple example if all the folders that needed to be archived all had 'archive' somewhere in their name but the others didn't then you could use a selector where the rule is to only backup folders that contain 'archive' in their name. Thinking sideways and looking to the long term, if this is something that you will have to do on a regular basis would it be feasible to rearrange the folder structure such that all the folders that need to be archived are under the same root folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richy_Boy Posted October 8, 2013 Report Share Posted October 8, 2013 I agree ^ Also, in the selector you can specify to backup folders with the archive bit is set on the file/folder.. if you can write a script to find the names of folders, then you can equally make a script to set the archive bit on them? i.e. FolderA SubFolderA1 SubSubFolderA1a (archive set) SubSubFolderA1b SubFolderA2 SubSubFolderA2a SubSubFolderA2b FolderB SubFolderB1 SubSubFolderB1a (archive set) SubSubFolderB1b SubFolderB2 SubSubFolderB2a SubSubFolderB2b (archive set) Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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