>>>>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:07:09 +0100 (BST), "Dominic Marks" <[EMAIL
>>>>> PROTECTED]> said:
Dominic> From my reading of the documentation for FileSet's it would seem
that the
Dominic> following would not be valid:
Dominic> "Any file-list item preceded by a less-than sign (<) will be taken
to be a
Dominic> file. This file will be read on the Director's machine at the time
the Job
Dominic> starts, and the data will be assumed to be a list of directories or
files,
Dominic> one per line, to be included. The names should start in column 1 and
Dominic> should not be quoted even if they contain spaces. This feature
allows you
Dominic> to modify the external file and change what will be saved without
stopping
Dominic> and restarting Bacula as would be necessary if using the @ modifier
noted
Dominic> above."
Dominic> But what about WildFile/WildDir?
Dominic> FileSet {
Dominic> Name = "Desktop Set"
Dominic> Include {
Dominic> Options {
Dominic> Signature = MD5
Dominic> Compression = GZIP
Dominic> Sparse = yes
Dominic> Exclude = yes
Dominic> IgnoreCase = yes
Dominic> WildDir = "<exclude-dirs"
Dominic> WildFile = "<exclude-files"
Dominic> }
Dominic> File = "C:/"
Dominic> }
Dominic> }
Dominic> This would be very useful since at the moment if you are backing up a
Dominic> large number of Wnidows machines (as I am) and they all need slightly
Dominic> different filesets (as these do) you end up duplicating enormous
portions
Dominic> of the same FileSet, the excludes bit is the most common - not the
files
Dominic> part, which makes the administration a big pain.
Dominic> My exclude-dirs and exclude-files take up about 150 lines and it is
Dominic> repeated again and again. Is there any way to achieve this, or if
not can
Dominic> this be added as a feature request?
Look at the doc for <file-list> where it says "Any name preceded by an at-sign
(@)...". This is actually works anywhere in the config file, so you can
create a file containing lots of WildFile lines and use @ to splice this into
the config multiple times. A slight difference between that and using
less-than is that you'll need to reload the config if the @ file is changed.
__Martin
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