Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 20:02, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>>Alexander Loehr wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>I want to move from Arkeia to Bacula and I'm already able to run
>>>backups. Arkeia was able to exclude directories from backup when a file
>>>with name .OPB_NOBACKUP exists in a directory. Does Bacula support a
>>>similar functionality and how do I use it?
>>
>>This functionality has been discussed in the bast, but Bacula does not
>>support it and I believe there is no plan to. I don't recall Kern's
>>reasons for deciding not to support it.
>
>
> I'm not in favor of taking the control of what is backed up out of the hands
> of the administrator and the centralized Director. The same functionality
> can be obtained with the Exclude directive, though somewhat differently.
I was thinking that was the reason (and I agree), but I wasn't sure.
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