Thomas Manson schrieb: > Hi, > > I wonder if it is possible to mark a directory to be exclude from the > backup by another mean that the bacula-dir.conf. > > Here we have a centralized configuration for what is to be backup, > while I think a distributed configuration would be more efficient and > easy to handle (Ok, not in every case, but in my case I don't get why > the director should know every thing about it's clients file system) > > For example, if a directory would contain an empty file > .bacula_exclude_dir own by a specific user, the file daemon would not > backup this dir even if inside a directory mention with a File=
this can be easily done by something like: find /home/thomas/test/ -name .exclude | sed 's/.exclude//' > /home/thomas/test/excludelist and then specify Exclude { File = "\\</home/thomas/test/excludelist" } in the Fileset. you can configure the includelist in the same way on the client. > > Or a file like the robot.txt that one left for search engines so they > know what to index and what not. > If the filedaemon find a file like .bacula_directives, it would follow > that list of directives for all subdir of the current dir. > > Or even a configuration file for the file daemon. It's easier to > modifiy (with scripts) a conf file on the client, that to automatically > update the director conf file from the client (quite impossible in fact). > > Ok, it's a bit intrusive, but as far as I know bacula, if the only way > to exclude a directory is to write some complex config in > bacula-dir.conf, it's very cumbersome ! > > In my case, on the machine I add very often new websites, each one > with specific structure with some files to be backup some not. > > this would lead to huge config file or huge amount of data backuped > for nothing... > > What do you think about that? > > Thomas. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- [:O]###[O:] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users