On Friday 26 January 2007 17:27, Ian Levesque wrote: > I use a simple technique - my client configurations have an exclude > statement for "*.nobackup". If a user doesn't want to back up a > directory, he can rename the directory with a .nobackup 'extension'. > This is easier for a user to see and it's quite obvious later when he > adds additional files to that directory.
For the others who suggest Bacula becoming aware of special file names to stop recursion, the answer is no. Bacula administration is all maintained in the Director. However, for those who *really* want such features, the Bacula administrator can "implement" it as shown above, which is perfectly OK with me and also very visible for the user. > > Cheers, > Ian > > On Jan 24, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Per Andreas Buer wrote: > > Hello people. > > > > I've finally put my Bacula system into production and I am really > > happy > > about how things are going. There is one feature from Arkeia which > > I am > > missing; in Arkeia you could create a empty file in a folder and > > Arkeia > > would not descend into that structure. If there was such a feature it > > would make my configuration a lot simpler - because I would not need a > > custom FileSet for each server that has some directory shouldn't be > > backed up (like /var/lib/mysql). > > > > Am I missing something? Is this a desired feature? > > > > Per. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > > share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
