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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