On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Ian Levesque wrote:
Hi Mikel,
Does Bacula offer some of the same metadata selectability under
MAC OSX as Retrospect?
I don't have any experience with generating client-side file lists,
but theoretically you could write a script that builds a list of
files/folders with certain metadata by using the OS X command "mdls".
For instance, here's a folder with the orange label:
ian% mdls -name kMDItemFSLabel Downloads
Downloads -------------
kMDItemFSLabel = 7
Meaning, one, ok it's probably the only one, of Retros features is
to select or exclude items from a job by the color attributed to
the item. Believe it or not this is a critical issue for one of my
clients who are mostly artists and need this visual bell.
I believe it... I'm looking into using Bacula to replace Retrospect
for client backups in our network as well, where there was a policy
at oe time where folders with a red label weren't backed up. Though
I can define a new policy (these are technical users, not artists) ;-)
I'm interested in what you come up with, regardless.
Cheers,
Ian
Thanks Ian,
This is exactly what I'm trying to do. I have the artists mark
folders in a specific colour in this case grey and those are excluded
from ALL backup jobs. Of course with Retro being as flaky as it has
been lately, and the uncertainty regardless of all of EMCInsignia's
assurances, I am of a mind set to try something else.
Cheers,
Mikel King
CIO, Director of Network Operations
Optimized Computer Solutions, INC
Tech Alliance, INC
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