[Bacula-users] Magic "don't descend into this directory"-files
Hello people. I've finally put my Bacula system into production and I am really happy about how things are going. There is one feature from Arkeia which I am missing; in Arkeia you could create a empty file in a folder and Arkeia would not descend into that structure. If there was such a feature it would make my configuration a lot simpler - because I would not need a custom FileSet for each server that has some directory shouldn't be backed up (like /var/lib/mysql). Am I missing something? Is this a desired feature? Per. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Magic "don't descend into this directory"-files
Hello people. I've finally put my Bacula system into production and I am really happy about how things are going. There is one feature from Arkeia which I am missing; in Arkeia you could create a empty file in a folder and Arkeia would not descend into that structure. If there was such a feature it would make my configuration a lot simpler - because I would not need a custom FileSet for each server that has some directory shouldn't be backed up (like /var/lib/mysql). Am I missing something? Is this a desired feature? Per. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Magic "don't descend into this directory"-files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Per Andreas Buer wrote: > Hello people. > > I've finally put my Bacula system into production and I am really happy > about how things are going. There is one feature from Arkeia which I am > missing; in Arkeia you could create a empty file in a folder and Arkeia > would not descend into that structure. If there was such a feature it > would make my configuration a lot simpler - because I would not need a > custom FileSet for each server that has some directory shouldn't be > backed up (like /var/lib/mysql). > > Am I missing something? Is this a desired feature? Bacula does not have such a feature (to my knowledge) but you could reproduce it by using a script to generate the list of files/directories to be backed up on the clients either nightly (via cron etc), when the job runs via ClientRunBeforeJob (there was a post for that on the list recently but I can't find it right now) or even as an argument in the fileset (there was a posting to the list recently showing how to have the filelist be generated at runtime on the client and used for the backup but I can't find it right now). Greetings, Michel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 iD8DBQFFt6Sh2Vs+MkscAyURAi7QAJ95gkZLZLrLEi4upZNqq8tSAlDpmACfTBar 9B79zi/DZARwQWfrsYo8tcs= =QwZC -END PGP SIGNATURE- - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Magic "don't descend into this directory"-files
I use a simple technique - my client configurations have an exclude statement for "*.nobackup". If a user doesn't want to back up a directory, he can rename the directory with a .nobackup 'extension'. This is easier for a user to see and it's quite obvious later when he adds additional files to that directory. Cheers, Ian On Jan 24, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Per Andreas Buer wrote: > Hello people. > > I've finally put my Bacula system into production and I am really > happy > about how things are going. There is one feature from Arkeia which > I am > missing; in Arkeia you could create a empty file in a folder and > Arkeia > would not descend into that structure. If there was such a feature it > would make my configuration a lot simpler - because I would not need a > custom FileSet for each server that has some directory shouldn't be > backed up (like /var/lib/mysql). > > Am I missing something? Is this a desired feature? > > Per. > > > -- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Magic "don't descend into this directory"-files
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 7:08 pm, Per Andreas Buer wrote: > I've finally put my Bacula system into production and I am really happy > about how things are going. There is one feature from Arkeia which I am > missing; in Arkeia you could create a empty file in a folder and Arkeia > would not descend into that structure. If there was such a feature it > would make my configuration a lot simpler - because I would not need a > custom FileSet for each server that has some directory shouldn't be > backed up (like /var/lib/mysql). There is a similar feature supported by GNU tar, see here http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html which Bacula might also be interested in supporting. Davide Bolcioni -- Paranoia is an afterthought. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Magic "don't descend into this directory"-files
On Friday 26 January 2007 17:27, Ian Levesque wrote: > I use a simple technique - my client configurations have an exclude > statement for "*.nobackup". If a user doesn't want to back up a > directory, he can rename the directory with a .nobackup 'extension'. > This is easier for a user to see and it's quite obvious later when he > adds additional files to that directory. For the others who suggest Bacula becoming aware of special file names to stop recursion, the answer is no. Bacula administration is all maintained in the Director. However, for those who *really* want such features, the Bacula administrator can "implement" it as shown above, which is perfectly OK with me and also very visible for the user. > > Cheers, > Ian > > On Jan 24, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Per Andreas Buer wrote: > > Hello people. > > > > I've finally put my Bacula system into production and I am really > > happy > > about how things are going. There is one feature from Arkeia which > > I am > > missing; in Arkeia you could create a empty file in a folder and > > Arkeia > > would not descend into that structure. If there was such a feature it > > would make my configuration a lot simpler - because I would not need a > > custom FileSet for each server that has some directory shouldn't be > > backed up (like /var/lib/mysql). > > > > Am I missing something? Is this a desired feature? > > > > Per. > > > > > > -- > > --- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > > share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > ___ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
