OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/openmediavault-rsnapshot

Source folder as a subfolder

privatesam opened this issue · 4 comments

privatesam commented

Is it possible for the source folder to be a sub-directory (sub-folder) of a shared folder? For example I have a "Movies" shared folder and within that sub folders "RecordedTV" and "DVDs" and I only want to back up "DVDs"?

Thanks in advance.

ryecoaaron commented

Sure. Just create another sharedfolder that is the subfolder you want and use it for the source.

votdev commented

Is it possible for the source folder to be a sub-directory (sub-folder) of a shared folder? For example I have a "Movies" shared folder and within that sub folders "RecordedTV" and "DVDs" and I only want to back up "DVDs"?

Shared folders are the fundamental building block in OMV's concept. Therefore no plugins should introduce other concepts. You can simply create a new (sub-) shared folder DVDs that can be used to create a new rsnapshot task.

privatesam commented

OK thanks for the answer. Not sure sub-folders would be classed as a "other concepts" but I'm sure there might be a technical reason which makes it more complicated for the plugin to incorporate them. I'll jut use a cronjob instead. Thanks.

ryecoaaron commented

I don’t understand why you dont want to just create another shared folder for the subfolder?

sf1 would be /path
sf2 would be /path/sub1

then just use sf2 instead of sf1 in the rsnapshot job.