On Monday 06 October 2008 06:22:51 Troy Daniels wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere (been offline for a week > or so, so am still catching up on my emails :) )
Yes. > > > It is not too late to change the name of the directive, but I would like > > to see some discussion/input on this. Although I don't have any strong > > attachment to "Ignore Dir", I think I personally prefer it to "Exclude > > Flag File", which will be harder for me to remember. > > I found 'IgnoreDir' to be non intuitive - Looking at it, it initially > struck me as an option to specify a directory to ignore rather than to > specify a file to cause a directory to be ignored. ie, Ignore Dir = > "SVN" would ignore the directory if *it was called* "SVN" not *if it > contained* a file/dir with that name. > > To make it more clearer, maybe one of the following: > > Ignore Dir Containing > Exclude Dir Containing > Ignore Dir Holding > Ignore Dir Holding > > Using the Exclude* syntax would keep it in line with current Bacula > naming conventions as well. Thanks for your comments. Regards, Kern > > Just my thoughts, > > Cheers, > > > Troy Daniels > Systems Admin. > iTouch Australia, > a Buongiorno Company. > > > Comments? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Kern > > > > On Friday 03 October 2008 19:19:07 Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > * Dan Langille schrieb am 02.10.08 um 23:02 Uhr: > > > > > > Hi Dan, > > > > > > > On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > > >Ignore Dir > > > > > > > > > >A note on whether this directive works recursive or not > > > > >would be fine. > > > > > > > > Recursive? > > > > > > > > As in 'ignore this directory' but take all its children? > > > > > > > > Sorry, that's not an ignore. ;) > > > > > > Full ack, but just to be 100% sure ;) > > > > > > > Point taken though. It reduces the number of questions. > > > > > > yes, thanks. > > > > > > > But regardless, if people are so inclined, hunting down the text > > > > and supplying a patch helps a great deal. > > > > > > Yes, I used to do that. Sorry that I did not this time. > > > > > > > >(And I personally would find "Exclude Flag File" more intuitive as > > > > >"Exclude" is the bacula terminology to to ignore files or > > > > >directories...) > > > > > > > > FWIW, you can name the file anything you want. > > > > > > I did not mean the value of the directive but the name of the > > > directive itself. > > > > > > Everywhere in the FileSet in Bacula you use the word "Exclude" when > > > dealing with files that will not be backed up. So I suggest to > > > follow this terminology instead of introducing a synonym. > > > I think this will increase usability. > > > > > > So I think > > > > > > Exclude Flag File = .no_backup > > > > > > would be more intuitive about what it does than > > > > > > Ignore Dir = .no_backup > > > > > > > > > Also I think because of using the word 'Dir' many people would expect > > > this to be a directory which will be ignored and will try something > > > like this: > > > > > > Ignore Dir = /tmp > > > > > > will will be nonsense of course ;) > > > > > > -Marc > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & > > win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > > anywhere in the world > > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
