Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the tip,
even If I need to update the director conf file each time I add a website,
it's easy enough to be usable.
Thanks again,
Thomas.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 14:45, Thomas <tho...@ic3s.de> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
> >
> >
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