Hi, Not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere (been offline for a week or so, so am still catching up on my emails :) )
> It is not too late to change the name of the directive, but I would like to > see some discussion/input on this. Although I don't have any strong > attachment to "Ignore Dir", I think I personally prefer it to "Exclude Flag > File", which will be harder for me to remember. > I found 'IgnoreDir' to be non intuitive - Looking at it, it initially struck me as an option to specify a directory to ignore rather than to specify a file to cause a directory to be ignored. ie, Ignore Dir = "SVN" would ignore the directory if *it was called* "SVN" not *if it contained* a file/dir with that name. To make it more clearer, maybe one of the following: Ignore Dir Containing Exclude Dir Containing Ignore Dir Holding Ignore Dir Holding Using the Exclude* syntax would keep it in line with current Bacula naming conventions as well. Just my thoughts, Cheers, Troy Daniels Systems Admin. iTouch Australia, a Buongiorno Company. > Comments? > > Best regards, > > Kern > > On Friday 03 October 2008 19:19:07 Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > * Dan Langille schrieb am 02.10.08 um 23:02 Uhr: > > > > Hi Dan, > > > > > On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > >Ignore Dir > > > > > > > >A note on whether this directive works recursive or not > > > >would be fine. > > > > > > Recursive? > > > > > > As in 'ignore this directory' but take all its children? > > > > > > Sorry, that's not an ignore. ;) > > > > Full ack, but just to be 100% sure ;) > > > > > Point taken though. It reduces the number of questions. > > > > yes, thanks. > > > > > But regardless, if people are so inclined, hunting down the text > > > and supplying a patch helps a great deal. > > > > Yes, I used to do that. Sorry that I did not this time. > > > > > >(And I personally would find "Exclude Flag File" more intuitive as > > > >"Exclude" is the bacula terminology to to ignore files or > > > >directories...) > > > > > > FWIW, you can name the file anything you want. > > > > I did not mean the value of the directive but the name of the > > directive itself. > > > > Everywhere in the FileSet in Bacula you use the word "Exclude" when > > dealing with files that will not be backed up. So I suggest to > > follow this terminology instead of introducing a synonym. > > I think this will increase usability. > > > > So I think > > > > Exclude Flag File = .no_backup > > > > would be more intuitive about what it does than > > > > Ignore Dir = .no_backup > > > > > > Also I think because of using the word 'Dir' many people would expect > > this to be a directory which will be ignored and will try something > > like this: > > > > Ignore Dir = /tmp > > > > will will be nonsense of course ;) > > > > -Marc > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
