Hi Paul, Thanks for the detailed response.
Hmm, sounds like a serious design question and one I may help to influence (well a little at least). Firstly, I turned to BackupPC as I like that they do not backup duplicate files and simple changes to configuration doesn't cause a massive revisit to backing everything again (something that Bacula does). Plus, I thought the interface look very user friendly. So, I have liked all that I have seen and think it works quite nicely. As you mentioned, you are needing to have BackupPC to be able to deal with many different protocols (I guess you mean connecting to systems). My original thought when I configured the system and this support request email was that if I entered *.tmp then I am looking to exclude/include that file from every directory (the whole share). But after reading your email, I think it could be just the root level. Or to be more explicit for root level you would enter "/*.tmp", if you wanted the whole share (ie every directory and sub-directory) then enter "*/*.tmp". This would allow to match 0 or more characters, including paths, prior to the file in question. So, in my original email example, I have a directory, "Do not archive", which normally appears as "/Data/Do not archive" but can as easily appear as "/Data/Peter/Docs/do not archive". I could therefore, enter the exclusion as "*/do not archive". This would also help with Windows "My Documents" folder which appears for each user on Windows (well XP at least), as "/Documents and Settings/Peter/My Documents", therefore, you would configure as "/Documents and Settings/*/My Documents" One question, what happens in the situation where a folder name is the same as file name, eg I have a folder "Do not archive", but also a file "Do not archive" without any extension? So, having the syntax of "*/Do not archive" will get which? Especially when I want to include the file in the backup but exclude the folder from backup. I hope this answers your question. Let me know if you need more details. If you feel it is reaching off topic to the mailing list, then feel free to email me directly. Ah, this time I remembered to check who the TO was going to :) Regards Peter PS Thanks for the link to your site. I keep talking about finding out about IRC and your blog has helped to reinforce that thought. ----- Original message ----- From: "Paul Mantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "BackupPC User List" <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 15:57:57 -0700 Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Wildcards on paths & filenames [... cut ...] Hi! [... cut ...] The problem with file inclusions and exclusions is that they are not uniform at the moment. Different protocols have different syntaxes and implementations of file inclusion/exclusion. At the moment, there is no support for wildcards, since globbing in Perl (the syntax for UNIX path specification) interfaces directly with the file system. However, we are working to make a uniform schema for directory specification that will work for as many protocols as possible, with the inclusion of some more fluid syntax. Implementing wildcards is a tricky thing, since we assume that the root is the sharename, and saying '*.tmp' would be ambiguous as far as depth is concerned. Would you just want to delete any file matching that pattern on the root level, or for the whole share? We are still working on this. [... cut ...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
