On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:10:10PM -0600, Daniel wrote:
> Tino,
>
> Thanks for your idea, however I'd rather not depend on generating a
> tree file before backing up the directory structure - first off the
> directory structure is very complex and changes frequently - I'm not
> sure if we could properly synchronize the tree generation with the
> backup of the database matching that tree structure within the
> allotted window for backups. Second if there were a problem with that
> tree file the directories would not be backed up correctly. I'd
> rather simply have bacula, at backup time, walk the tree as it goes
> and just exclude the files in it if that's possible.
I'm not familiar with Bacula backing up complex directory structures (we
only use it for database dumps and similar stuff), so this is just an
idea:
exclude regex '^r:/stragedir/.*[^/]$'
include regex '^r:/strangedir/.*/$'
But I'm not sure how bacula handles regular expressions...
HTH,
Tino.
> On 26 Jan, 2010, at 12:05 , Tino Schwarze wrote:
>
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:05:46AM -0600, Daniel wrote:
> >
> >> I have the following situation:
> >>
> >> I am backing up a Windows hard disk (let's call it R: for remote)... it is
> >> NOT the C: drive on the remote host.
> >> I wish to back up nearly everything on it EXCEPT for one directory:
> >> R:/strangedir
> >> Under R:/strangedir I *ONLY* want to keep the directory tree structure,
> >> NOT the files in it. This tree structure changes frequently and must
> >> match files elsewhere in the backup set, so that is why its important that
> >> I copy the tree structure but not necessarily the files within it as those
> >> can be repopulated by a script from other data that is already backed up
> >> elsewhere in R:.
> >>
> >> How can I make a rule for R:/strangedir? I've thought about trying to use
> >> RegexDir and RegexFile, but I can't seem to make them handle arbitrary
> >> recursive depth.
> >>
> >> Thank you all very much for your help and suggestions.
> >
> > Do you have any ACLs or fancy permissions or something in the tree? If
> > not, you could get around that by running a scheduled
> > dirtree > r:\tree-of-strangedir.txt
> > maybe even just before backup...
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Tino.
> >
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