On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:21:11 -0400
arne <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently backing up several workstations using bacula and everything is 
> working fine. Thanks to this forum a lot of problems have been sorted out.
> 
> Does anybody know if its possible to exclude files by their size?
> I want to exclude vm hard disk images. Excluding them by wildfile the usual 
> file endings is not the problem. But at some places vm images are stored in 
> compressed zip archives. I don't want to exclude all zip archives in general
> but lets say *.zip > 10GB.
> 

There's no easy way to do that.  You'll want to generate a list of the files 
you don't want to back up, and feed that list to the Exclude directive of the 
job.

You can either use the previous backup jobs to generate the list, or do a find 
on those workstations.

Regards,
-- 
Alex Chekholko   chekh AT genomics.upenn DOT edu 

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