On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:30, John Stoffel wrote: > Kern> On Thursday 18 August 2005 20:02, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Kern> I'm not in favor of taking the control of what is backed up out > Kern> of the hands of the administrator and the centralized Director. > Kern> The same functionality can be obtained with the Exclude > Kern> directive, though somewhat differently. > > So make it check the UID/permissions of the file. If it's not owned > by root and mode 0400, then you ignore it. Otherwise you use it. > It's a much easier scheme than the current edit the director conf file > and try to make it work right.
Yes, and no. If you put a few excludes in a few places on a few servers (or clients) you might be able to keep track of them. But if you get down the road, and the files multiply, then directory use changes and the exclude files don't get updated, the chance of something important not getting backed up is increased. Also, a new admin coming in would have to find the exclude files on each server, as opposed to looking through the config files. So, having a central config files keeps the documentation in one directory. But, I suppose, as a compromise, something like was mentioned in another e-mail could be implemented: directives to honor or ignore local config and/or exclude files. j----- k----- -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
