Hi Thomas,

there is an exclude feature in previous bacula versions as well. And
if you are talking about the new "Exclude Dir Containing" feature:

You can achieve the same behavior in 2.x versions of bacula with an 
Exclude setting like this:

FileSet {
  Name = "MyFileSet"
  Include {
    Options {
      ...
    }
    File = ...
  }
  Exclude {
    File = "\\|sh -c 'for D in / /var /home; do find $D -xdev -name 
.BACULA_NO_BACKUP -type f -printf \"%h\\n\"; done | tee 
/root/bacula_excluded_dirs.log'"
  }
}

You have to put the relevant filesystems into the list of the for-loop. In this 
case all dirs containing a file ".BACULA_NO_BACKUP" within
the /, /var or /home filesystem will not be backed up. And you will find a list 
of directories that have been excluded this way in 
/root/bacula_excluded_dirs.log

I am using this mechanism since years and it works very well.

-Marc

* Thomas Manson schrieb am 04.08.09 um 09:58 Uhr:
> Hi,
> 
>   I've been using bacula to backup remote hosts through ssh connection.
> 
>   It works well except that :
> 
> 
>    - a lot of data is backed up on remote host uselessly (as log file ...)
>    - I need to upgrade to bacula 3.x to have the exclude feature... but I'm
>    running on ubuntu and would like to keep the apt-get update feature working
>    for bacula
>    - My hardrives are full. While I didn't have a NAS ready, I set the
>    backup directory to /backup on my primary disks (raid1).
>    I now have 2.7TB in Raid5 on a nas mounted in /mnt/backup
> 
> 
> What I would like is :
> 
> 
>    - upgrade to v3 and backup only what is needed (with the exclude feature)
>    - delete all existing backup in /backup (150GB)
>    - start backing up on /mnt/backup
> 
> my filesystem is almost full (96%) ...
> 
> Thanks for any help ;)
> Thomas.

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