Re: [Bacula-users] mark a directory to be excluded from backup
Thomas Manson schrieb:
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=
this can be easily done by something like:
find /home/thomas/test/ -name .exclude | sed 's/.exclude//'
/home/thomas/test/excludelist
and then specify
Exclude {
File = \\/home/thomas/test/excludelist
}
in the Fileset.
you can configure the includelist in the same way on the client.
Or a file like the robot.txt that one left for search engines so they
know what to index and what not.
If the filedaemon find a file like .bacula_directives, it would follow
that list of directives for all subdir of the current dir.
Or even a configuration file for the file daemon. It's easier to
modifiy (with scripts) a conf file on the client, that to automatically
update the director conf file from the client (quite impossible in fact).
Ok, it's a bit intrusive, but as far as I know bacula, if the only way
to exclude a directory is to write some complex config in
bacula-dir.conf, it's very cumbersome !
In my case, on the machine I add very often new websites, each one
with specific structure with some files to be backup some not.
this would lead to huge config file or huge amount of data backuped
for nothing...
What do you think about that?
Thomas.
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Re: [Bacula-users] mark a directory to be excluded from backup
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the tip,
even If I need to update the director conf file each time I add a website,
it's easy enough to be usable.
Thanks again,
Thomas.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 14:45, Thomas tho...@ic3s.de wrote:
Thomas Manson schrieb:
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=
this can be easily done by something like:
find /home/thomas/test/ -name .exclude | sed 's/.exclude//'
/home/thomas/test/excludelist
and then specify
Exclude {
File = \\/home/thomas/test/excludelist
}
in the Fileset.
you can configure the includelist in the same way on the client.
Or a file like the robot.txt that one left for search engines so they
know what to index and what not.
If the filedaemon find a file like .bacula_directives, it would follow
that list of directives for all subdir of the current dir.
Or even a configuration file for the file daemon. It's easier to
modifiy (with scripts) a conf file on the client, that to automatically
update the director conf file from the client (quite impossible in fact).
Ok, it's a bit intrusive, but as far as I know bacula, if the only way
to exclude a directory is to write some complex config in
bacula-dir.conf, it's very cumbersome !
In my case, on the machine I add very often new websites, each one
with specific structure with some files to be backup some not.
this would lead to huge config file or huge amount of data backuped
for nothing...
What do you think about that?
Thomas.
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Re: [Bacula-users] mark a directory to be excluded from backup
Yes, that sounds good ;) I'll set a cron job that get the exclude file list on each client with scp before the backup job. Thomas. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 15:40, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, Thanks for the tip, even If I need to update the director conf file each time I add a website, it's easy enough to be usable. Thanks again, Thomas. In this method you should just update the external file. Unless the new website is not in the path of the include fileset already. John -- 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
Re: [Bacula-users] mark a directory to be excluded from backup
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
Re: [Bacula-users] mark a directory to be excluded from backup
Yes exactly ! But I'll keep to the version of bacula shipped in ubuntu repo (safer). Thanks for the info. Thomas. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 16:02, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: 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
