On Mittwoch 06 Februar 2008, you wrote: > The problem is that bacula finds the files by walking over the directory > structure, using the exclude options to prune the walk. In your example > above, it prunes /home/foo before it finds /home/foo/Documents.
Ahhh !!! I see, that explains all ! > > You need to make it match /home/* as well. Something like this might work: > > Options { > signature = MD5 > compress = GZIP9 > # include the Documents dirs themselves > wilddir = "/home/*/Documents" > # include everything in the Documents dirs > wild = "/home/*/Documents/*" > # include all dirs directly in /home so Documents dirs are reached > wilddir = "/home/*" > } > Options { > # exclude everything else in the dirs under /home > wild = "/home/*/*" > Exclude = yes > } This example works. Thanks very much ! Just one note for the developers. I think Bacula is a really great piece of software. It is comparatively easy to understand and once one mastered the logic configuration is not difficult. greetings THomas -- ======== DI Thomas Mohr Institute for Cancer Research Medical University of Vienna Borschkegasse 8a A-1090 Vienna Phone: +43 1 4277 65160 Mobile: +43 650 930 1964 Fax: +43 1 4277 65196 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users