Backing up only certain file extensions

[dekkar]

Hi, recently I acquired Veeam backup for my virtual environment.

And now I am going to put its backups to tape, rather than do a file level backup of our virtual file server.

Every day, veeam creates a full image of the server using reverse incremental technology.

So the full backup is the last one you took, and each one going back in time is incremental.

The problem with this, is I only want arcserve to backup the last file created which will always be a .vbk file, whereas all the incrementals are .vrb

The name of the file will change, so it looks like the easiest way to deal with it is to somehow set arcserve to backup only the .vbk files in that folder.

Is there any way to do this?


Thanks,
Dekkar

 

[davidmichel]

ah perhaps you did not notice this is an "ARCserve" forum.

Home > Forums > Server Rack > Back-up Systems > CA: ARCserve back-up Forum

Go here for help.

http://www.veeam.com/forums/

 

[dekkar]

oops.... sorry...... My question was actually an arcserve question... but i stupidly didnt mention it...


The backup I am performing is in arcserve, I want to put the above Veeam file onto tape, and integrate it into my nightly backup routine.


I figure it would be much faster to put one 400gb file onto tape rather than 400gb worth of documents....

 

[davidmichel]

ah well that makes sense.

There is a Filter that can be used with *.extention.

I think you can do it with a path, Help has specific examples but it seems that Filters are kind of a black art. I suggest doing a Count job as a test. Quick Start > Utilities > Count and under Options set Job Log to Log All Activity. It will proceed to count and the job log will contain the list of all files. This way you can quickly and easily test the filter to make sure it is working correctly.

 

[dekkar]

ahhhh I didnt know about the count job.... perfect for testing...

I'll go ahead and give the filter a go!


Thanks for that..