Thomas Manson wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if it is possible to mark a directory to be exclude from the > backup by another mean that the bacula-dir.conf. > > Here we have a centralized configuration for what is to be backup, > while I think a distributed configuration would be more efficient and > easy to handle (Ok, not in every case, but in my case I don't get why > the director should know every thing about it's clients file system) > > For example, if a directory would contain an empty file > .bacula_exclude_dir own by a specific user, the file daemon would not > backup this dir even if inside a directory mention with a File=
Well, FWIW, this is implemented, but not released. See http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html Look for "Exclude Dirs Containing" Now in the SVN version, coming soon to a release near you. Is this what you're looking for? -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users