Hello All,

I have updatedb running daily to do the traditional indexing of files so you can type in locate filename and find out where those exist. I figured out how to restrict what paths are being searched, but now I would like to create an alternate DB so that when I type in locate it uses the default index file, but if I pass a parameter to locate it uses the alternate db I want to make.

So I want the 2nd index file to contain lets say only files in /home/BACKUP then lets say build the data file called backup so I would execute:
locate -d path/backup(db) which will search these seperate files.

So again, how do I config updatedb.conf when it already has this:
PRUNEFS = "auto afs iso9660 sfs udf"
PRUNEPATHS = "/afs /media /net /sfs /tmp /udev /var/spool/cups /var/spool/squid /var/tmp"

for the default file vs the additional backup file.
And how do i add it to run daily as well?

Any help appreciated Thanks!

Joey

Updatedb has an option ( --output=dbfile ) for which the default is /var/lib/locatedb. That would serve for the traditional locate command. By changing the dbfile name, you can create an alternate db.

Locate has an option ( --database=path ) which you can use to specify the path to the alternate db you created with updatedb.

Put both commands into a simple shell script to run consecutively, with an appropriate sleep or wait command between them. Then set a crontab to run the script daily.

See the man pages for locate and updatedb for more information. Also, www.google.com/linux is your friend. You may find more info via that route as well.