On Wed, 03 Jun 2009, Martin Simmons might have said: > >>>>> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:59:00 -0500, Mike Eggleston said: > > > > Morning, > > > > I have been running bacula for quite some time (wonderful system). I'm > > tweaking my backups to reduce just how much stuff is backed up and > > eliminate those things that can be reinstalled rather than restored if > > needed. Today I'm looking at a series of files that are copied from an > > internal source code repositiory. Since the source code repository is > > backed up nightly, I don't want to backup up an individual's copies of > > those files (the individuals are by company policy required to manage > > any files checked out that have changes that are not yet checked back > > in to the source code repository). > > > > In my bacula-dir.conf I have a line: WildDir = > > "/opt/data/*/p4" In last night's backup I have the > > following file that was backed up: (query, 12, $jobid) > > /opt/data/user/p4/user_shared/product/dist_sdk/PluginSDK/src/plugins/CaeXML/x64/Debug/runtimeWrite.obj > > > > My understanding, that I must have wrong, is that since the > > bacula-dir.conf this section of the File Set has Exclude = yes that > > /opt/data/*/p4 is excluded that also implies that anything under > > /opt/data/*/p4 is also excluded. I do have a statement further down > > in the File Set section of 'File = /opt/data' so that everything else > > is included. > > > > Is there a conflict in what I have done? Is there a better way to > > exclude part and include the rest? > > Your approach should work, but the description of your fileset was too vague > for me to tell why it doesn't. > > I recommend that you post the complete fileset definition to the list. > > __Martin
Thanks, Martin. Here's the file set. I didn't want to send a huge message to the list. Looking at the File Set I see I misspelled backula. Great! That one change will reduce the size of the backup on the bacula host. Mike File Set { Name = Unix-Files Ignore Fileset Changes = yes Include { Options { signature = MD5 } File = / File = /boot File = /home File = /opt File = /opt/CVS File = /opt/backups File = /opt/bacula File = /opt/pointwise File = /opt/pwi File = /etc File = /var File = /usr/share File = /var/lib File = /var/lib/imap File = /var/lib/ldap File = /var/lib/mysql File = /var/spool File = /var/spool/imap File = /var/spool/mail File = /var/spool/samba File = /var/www File = /var/www/html File = /var/www/html/bugzilla File = /var/yp } Exclude { File = /proc File = /tmp File = /.journal File = /.fsck File = /opt/backula/var File = /opt/backula/data File = /opt/backula/mysql File = /root File = /var/lock File = /var/log File = /var/named/chroot File = /var/named/chroot/dev File = /var/named/chroot/proc File = /var/run File = /var/spool/clientmqueue File = /var/spool/mqueue File = /var/cache File = /.cpan File = /root/.cpan } } ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users