Hello,
On 2/5/2006 3:37 PM, Jens Böttge wrote:
Hello,
I'm searching for a possibility to define an exclusion on the client side.
The consultation of the outstanding documentation unfortunately brought
no explanation. I hope, I surveyed nothing.
Unfortunately, you didn't overlook anything.
Background: many of our users have temporary or unimportant datas in
their directory, it not "worth" to be backed up to tape. The decision
over this is with the user.
O.K., I know I can create a file list for the backup by a script, but it
would be much easier to delegate this to bacula. ;-)
That's not possible without using special commands, like the scripts you
mention.
The idea is to place a file (e.g. .nobackup) into the directory which is
to be excluded.
Bacula doesn't support this, which I think is the right decision - most
setups rely on a centrally managed backup scheme, because you simply
can't trust your users to do things right :-)
Anyway, I see a solution, also having the positive side-effect of
educationg your users.
Basically, tell your users that they can use only a limited amount of
space. Quota are a good solution to that.
If you also have users who need lots of disk space for their work, and
who don't think it needs to be backed up, tell them to use the /temp
directory.
If you or your users want to keep their data in the home directories,
even if it's temporary data only, have them create a directore
~/nobackup/ which you can exclude from your filesets.
To enforce that, you might even consider monitoring each users backup
space and announce to stop doing backups if it regularly exceeds a
reasonable size.
If all of this doesn't work, your users should really consider
rethinking their storage needs and the way they decide where to store
and what to keep ;-)
Erm, once again the short answer: Bacula can't do that, but feel free to
implement such an option :-)
Arno
Best regards,
Jens Boettge
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