Hello,
On 6/28/2006 10:04 AM, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> Hey,
>
> we've been using Bacula for quite some time now. Before that we were
> using Arkeia,
(shudder...)
> and one feature I rather liked about Arkeia was that you
> could simply create a file called .ARK_NOBACKUP in a directory and
> Arkeia would exclude that directory and all of its children from the
> backup.
>
> This allowed not only the administrator but also normal users to
> selectively exclude stuff
Yes, I always considered that a security risk. I'm glad you agree ;-)
> from their home directories, e.g. a download
> directory containing a couple of ISO images or something like that. All
> of our users (of which we don't have that many) know that they can
> easily shoot themselves in their collective feet with this if they put
> such a file into the wrong directory, so I'm not concerned about them
> excluding important directories too much.
Ok, then...
> Now, how could I achieve something like this with Bacula? My current
> idea is to have a small Perl script find all directories with such a
> file and to use that like...
>
> FileSet {
> Name = "..."
> Include {
> ...
> }
> Exclude {
> File = "\\|bacula_exclude_dirs.pl"
> }
> }
>
> Would that work? Problem is that this might take quite a while for huge
> file systems. But after searching the docs again I couldn't find another
> way.
That seems to be the only working solution. Also, you could do other,
interesting, things in such a script. For example, I use a script to
create not only a file set for one job, but also conrol some programs in
it - mail server backup, for example.
This has been discussed once, and IIRC Kern didn't like the idea to
allow such simple user control over backup operations but would accept a
patch to allow it, as long it would need explicit enabling.
One other solution you could use is to create the file set by a script
and then include that list. This might allow to separate the file system
scan from the backup run (interesting in case you want to control the
clients load).
Arno
> Regards,
> Mosu
>
>
>
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