Re: [Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-18 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 18/05/14 19:11, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 18/05/14 16:37, Gary Cowell wrote: >> I use the Exclude Dir Containing with a dotfile, the example is >> >> Exclude Dir Containing = "excludemefrombackup.txt" >> >> So I use ".nobackup" on unix, but any file will do. >> >> Then just create this file in a

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-18 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 18/05/14 16:37, Gary Cowell wrote: > I use the Exclude Dir Containing with a dotfile, the example is > > Exclude Dir Containing = "excludemefrombackup.txt" > > So I use ".nobackup" on unix, but any file will do. > > Then just create this file in any directory you want excluded, > regardless of s

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-18 Thread Gary Cowell
I use the Exclude Dir Containing with a dotfile, the example is Exclude Dir Containing = "excludemefrombackup.txt" So I use ".nobackup" on unix, but any file will do. Then just create this file in any directory you want excluded, regardless of spaces, escaping or whatever. Much easier. On 16 Ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 16/05/14 18:17, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Wed, 14 May 2014 20:27:43 +0200, Erik P Olsen said: >> >> I want to exclude a directory on a laptop running Fedora 20. The directory >> contains a set of virtual machines that should not be backed up. The >> directive >> in bacula-dir.conf is: >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-16 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 14 May 2014 20:27:43 +0200, Erik P Olsen said: > > I want to exclude a directory on a laptop running Fedora 20. The directory > contains a set of virtual machines that should not be backed up. The > directive > in bacula-dir.conf is: > >Exclude { > File = /home/erik/"Vir

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-16 Thread Clark, Patricia A.
OK - Instead of using a section for Exclude, in your Include section use Options to provide the exclude directive: Include { File = /home/erik Options { Ex

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-15 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 15/05/14 19:00, Clark, Patricia A. wrote: > Did you try delimiting? > > File = /home/erik/VirtualBox\ VMs > > > Also, perhaps a different directive: > Wild = "/home/erik/VirtualBox VMs/*" Good suggestion but unfortunately neither work. Backslash is apparently illegal and wild = "is not permitt

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-15 Thread Clark, Patricia A.
Did you try delimiting? File = /home/erik/VirtualBox\ VMs Also, perhaps a different directive: Wild = "/home/erik/VirtualBox VMs/*" Patti Clark Linux System Administrator R&D Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory On 5/14/14 4:40 PM, "Erik P. Olsen" wrote: >On 14/05/14 20:34, compdo

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-14 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 14/05/14 20:34, compdoc wrote: >> I want to exclude a directory on a laptop running Fedora 20... >> >> Exclude { >> File = /home/erik/"VirtualBox VMs" >> } > > > Wouldn't it be: File = "/home/erik/VirtualBox VMs" > I tried that too to no avail. -- Erik

[Bacula-users] Problem excluding directory.

2014-05-14 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I want to exclude a directory on a laptop running Fedora 20. The directory contains a set of virtual machines that should not be backed up. The directive in bacula-dir.conf is: Exclude { File = /home/erik/"VirtualBox VMs" } Since the directory name has an embedded blank its name is e