RHEL4 : Backup directories without content

IanSolo666 · 03-26-2008, 05:28 AM

Hello everybody !

I'm running an FTP cluster on RHEL4 with DRBD and we have a huge number of homedirs on our /ftp partition dedicated to the corresponding customers.

The fact is that we don't care of the content because it's just a support for exchanging files and data.

So, I'd like to build a backup of this /ftp partition with only the homedirectories and without the files ; in case of a restore, I only need the arborescence and I don't have disk space for a complete backup. Of course, I need to keep the rights. How can I do that ?

I tried with a find combined with tar but it didn't give the wanted result.

Thanks for your help.

Marco

billymayday · 03-26-2008, 05:53 AM

You should be able to use find with -type d

Did you try that? If so, what did you try and what didn't work?

colucix · 03-26-2008, 06:27 AM

Or you can use rsync like this

Code:

rsync -av --include '*/' --exclude '*' -e ssh /source/dir user@host:/destination/dir

the --include and --exclude options take care of selecting only the directories.

roland_bapst · 03-26-2008, 09:20 AM

You can use something like

Code:

find /ftp -type d | cpio -pdumv /tmp/bkp

IanSolo666 · 03-27-2008, 02:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roland_bapst

You can use something like

Code:

find /ftp -type d | cpio -pdumv /tmp/bkp

YES !!! That's it ! Worked perfectly, thanks Roland

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