Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula don't ignore files in section Exclude

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 05:12:17PM -0300, Daniel wrote:
> This problem is the continuation of my last e-mail.
> 
> I am trying to configurate the bacula to make the backup of my desktop. 
> I want to make copy of my /home/user folder, but I wanto to ignore the 
> directores .gvfs and .VirtualBox.
> On the bacula-dir, the configuration is like this:
> 
> FileSet {                               
>   Name = "User File Set"
>     Include {
>     Options {
> #       Exclude = yes
> }
>     File = /home/user/
>    }
>         Exclude {
>                 File = /home/user/.VirtualBox/
>                 File = /home/user/.gvfs/
>               }
> }
> 
> 
> 
> The server make the backup, but don't ignore the files in section Exclude {}

Well, it should. Are you sure you restarted/reloaded your director
after changing ?

> If I uncomment the line "Exclude = yes", then the server don't backup 
> any folder... I tried reading the manual and, from what I understand, I 
> should put this line in the configuration, but, if I do that, the server 
> does not copy anything.

No, you should not put "Exclude=yes", the original answer was correct
in that. It works here just like that. You could try removing the
trailing slashes though, maybe those are confusing bacula ?

There are generally 3 ways to exclude files in bacula:

1)  Include { 
        File = /home
    } 
    Exclude { 
        File = /home/blah
    }

   Those will backup all of /home except  /home/blah.

   That is the one that you are trying above, but which misteriously
   doesn't work although it should.

2)  Include {
        Options {
                wildfile = "*.avi"
                exclude = yes
        }
        File = /home
    }
        
    This is somewhat confusing, but will backup all of /home but without
    those files matching wildcard *.avi

3) (in newer bacula releases only)
   Include {
        File = /home
   }
   ExcludeDirContaining = .do_not_backup

   This will backup all of the  /home, except directories containing
   file ".do_not_backup" (and all of it's subdirectories).



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