Hi Thomas,
there is an exclude feature in previous bacula versions as well. And
if you are talking about the new "Exclude Dir Containing" feature:
You can achieve the same behavior in 2.x versions of bacula with an
Exclude setting like this:
FileSet {
Name = "MyFileSet"
Include {
Options {
...
}
File = ...
}
Exclude {
File = "\\|sh -c 'for D in / /var /home; do find $D -xdev -name
.BACULA_NO_BACKUP -type f -printf \"%h\\n\"; done | tee
/root/bacula_excluded_dirs.log'"
}
}
You have to put the relevant filesystems into the list of the for-loop. In this
case all dirs containing a file ".BACULA_NO_BACKUP" within
the /, /var or /home filesystem will not be backed up. And you will find a list
of directories that have been excluded this way in
/root/bacula_excluded_dirs.log
I am using this mechanism since years and it works very well.
-Marc
* Thomas Manson schrieb am 04.08.09 um 09:58 Uhr:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using bacula to backup remote hosts through ssh connection.
>
> It works well except that :
>
>
> - a lot of data is backed up on remote host uselessly (as log file ...)
> - I need to upgrade to bacula 3.x to have the exclude feature... but I'm
> running on ubuntu and would like to keep the apt-get update feature working
> for bacula
> - My hardrives are full. While I didn't have a NAS ready, I set the
> backup directory to /backup on my primary disks (raid1).
> I now have 2.7TB in Raid5 on a nas mounted in /mnt/backup
>
>
> What I would like is :
>
>
> - upgrade to v3 and backup only what is needed (with the exclude feature)
> - delete all existing backup in /backup (150GB)
> - start backing up on /mnt/backup
>
> my filesystem is almost full (96%) ...
>
> Thanks for any help ;)
> Thomas.
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