Hello,
02.12.2009 15:17, Clark Hartness wrote:
> Hi Arno, 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arno Lehmann [mailto:al AT its-lehmann DOT de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 4:19 AM
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Is it possible to Set a Job Level with a
> Schedule without Scheduling the Job?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 02.12.2009 01:02, Clark Hartness wrote:
>> Arno said:
>>
>> "alternatively, you could run your script from a RunScript resource in the
> Job."
>>>>> I am writing a filelist to the CLIENT MACHINE which I am using the 
>>>>> following in the include as such in the FileSet
> 
> If that's all your script does, you can use its output as the file list to
> back up directly: "If the vertical bar (|) in front of my_partitions is
> preceded by a backslash as in \|, the program will be executed on the
> Client's machine instead of on the Director's machine." from
> http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/install/install/Configuring_Director.
> html#SECTION00670000000000000000
> 
>>>>>

A rather inconvenient way to mark your text inside quoted text... I 
believe you can get Outlook to create proper (i.e., what is considered 
the normal style) qoutes somehow.

   The Script (Ruby) is a good deal more complicated and creates multiple
> files.  In short it decends ICManage and Synchronicity Workspaces listing
> files that are not protected by Revision control.  But it also marshals the
> files and writes other files to allow for management allowing users to be
> notified if they fail to check in files on a regular basis and clean up
> unneed files from work areas.

Well, in that case modifying this script to create a file list might 
be more efort than reasonably invested.

> So, instead of
>>   Include {
>>     Options {
>>         compression=GZIP
>>         signature = MD5
>>     }
>>     # Backup Specific Files Not Under Revision Control
>>     File = "\\</var/lib/bacula/cyswaps.workspaces"
>>   }
> 
> you could to
> File="\\|/path/to/your.script" if the script just prints the files to back
> up to stdout.
> 
>>>>>  The standard output/error are piped to /dev/null.
> 
> Of course, you could do other things in the script as well, as long as they
> don't produce output, like actually creating some of the files to back up.
> 
> You might end up with a situation where the backup level doesn't matter, for
> example if you create files in the script, they will always be new and thus
> picked up by jobs of any level.
> 
>>>>>  Backing all this up to disk and have some concern for a manageable
> retention/recycling schedule as we are in the early stages of this
> development.  By using the crontab to call the bacula job I have the ability
> to test if the file list exists or if it is complete assuring the script did
> not fail.  I have incorporated a function to determine the dayofweek and
> currently the crontab will call a level=full on Saturday and default to
> incrementals other days.

Ok, that sounds like the most reasonable solution then.

>>>>> Thanks for your time and direction!
> 
> Clark
> 
> Arno
> 
>>>>> When I attempted to run the script as a ClientRunBeforeJob and
> RunScript On the Client it would use whatever files were in the list at the
> time the Scheduler started the job not the files that were generated by the
> script.  So basically the file list from the previous run was being backed
> up and not the list from the current run of the script.

Right, that can be a bit inconvenient :-)

Arno

>> Clark
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