Files To Back Up Selection Rules - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition User Manual

In general, when setting up a centralized policy to perform volume backups of Linux machines, make
sure that the paths entered in the Volume field correspond to partitions (such as /dev/hda2 or
/home/usr/docs in the previous example), and not to directories.
Standard names for Linux partitions
Names such as /dev/hda1 reflect the standard way of naming IDE hard disk partitions in Linux. The
prefix hd signifies the disk type (IDE); a means that this is the first IDE hard disk on the system, and 1
denotes the first partition on the disk.
In general, the standard name for a Linux partition consists of three components:

Disk type; hd for IDE drives, sd for SCSI drives, md for software RAID drives (for example, dynamic
volumes);

Disk number; a for the first disk, b for the second disk, etc.;

Partition number on the disk; 1 for the first partition, 2 for the second partition, etc.
To guarantee backing up selected disks regardless of their type, consider including three entries in
the Volumes to back up selection rules dialog box, one for each possible type. For example, to back
up the first hard disk of each Linux machine under a centralized policy, you may want to type the
following lines in the Volume field:
/dev/hda1
/dev/sda1
/dev/mda1
7.3.2.2

Files to back up selection rules

Define file selection rules, according to which the files and (or) folders will be backed up on the
machines the policy will be applied to.
To define file selection rules
In the first line, select the rule from the list, or type it manually. To add another rule, click the next
empty line, and select the rule from the list, or type it manually.
The program remembers the rules typed manually, and the next time you open the window, these
rules will be available for selection in the list along with the default ones.
Windows
Full path
Point to the folders and files to be backed up. If you specified a path to a file or folder explicitly, the
policy will back up this item on each machine where this exact path will be found.
To include
File Text.doc in folder
D:\Work
Folder C:\Windows
Environment variables
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In the Files and folders
column, type or select:
D:\Work\Text.doc
C:\Windows
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