Hello,
Concerning the .nsr files and the CACHEDIR.TAG directories, here is an idea
that merits discussion that seconds my comments that the Networker syntax is
a bit hard to understand. The idea presented here gives some of the same
features in a more Bacula like style syntax ...
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Subject: [Bacula-devel] Request for .bacula FileSet includes
Date: Tuesday 22 March 2005 15:36
From: "John Stoffel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Kern,
One of the things in Bacula that I miss from Legato Networker is the
concept of directives files, which can change the behavior of how a
backup runs without having to change the master configuration.
They're called '.nsr' files in Legato and you can use them to skip or
pre-process certain files during backups. Useful. Not that Legato
has it done perfectly, the syntax (and man page examples) are
baroque. But the idea is nice.
It would be great if we could get .bacula files, which you could drop
into a directory and have it either skip or ignore various files which
you don't want backed up. Off the top of my head, a syntax like this
might work:
Directory: "." {
Skip: *.jpeg
Skip+: core
Allow:
Filter: "*.mp3" {
Backup: /some/path/to/tool -backup
Restore: /some/path/to/tool -restore
}
}
The idea would be that you could specify the Skip directive to just
skip files in the current directory. The Skip+ directive would skip
files in the current and all descendent directories. The Allow: would
let sub directories with .bacula files influence backups. Deny: would
invert that obviously. The Filter: one would let you specify a tool
which reads the various files (via STDIN probably) and writes the
output to STDOUT so that bacula could them backup and restore the
file(s) with a user provided script. Sorta like how the backups of
the Catalog are done now, but more flexible.
The whole idea is to allow admins/users to control what gets backed
up. Of course, there would be a report (optional?) that would say
what was Skipped or Filtered so you could at least get an idea of what
wasn't going to tape.
I just hate having to update the Director configuration and muck with
the "Ignore Fileset Changes" toggle, just to make sure I don't backup
MySQL databases in their raw format.
What do people think?
John
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