>>>>> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:41:48 -0600, Davin Church said:
> 
> Ok, I'm probably doing something stupid that's obvious to everyone 
> else.  Perhaps someone can point it out to me?
> 
> I'm running Bacula v3.0.3a on WinXP and most things seem to be 
> working fine.  I'm trying to specify some file extensions that are 
> not to be zipped (e.g. ".gzip", ".jpg", etc.), but it seems to be 
> zipping them anyway.  So I built a simple test case and I can't 
> figure out how to get it to respect the exceptions.
> 
> My FileSet has three Options (which I use for all my jobs), followed 
> by a file list (a large single text file in this sample case).  The 
> first Options specifies particular files & directories to exclude - 
> this seems to be working fine.  The second Options specifies file 
> types not to compress (it contains no compression directive).  The 
> third Options just lists the default options (including compression) 
> to be used for all other files.
> 
> Here's the contents of my second Options resource, stripped back to 
> just my test case.  It shows all the ways I've tried specifying the 
> files to be selected by this option and thus not compressed.
> 
> Options {
>      Check File Changes = Yes
>      Hard Links = No
>      Ignore Case = Yes
>      Enhanced Wild = Yes
>      MTime Only = Yes
>      No ATime = Yes
>      Signature = MD5
>      Wild File = "c:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application 
> Data/Bacula/Work/*.noziptest"
>      Wild      = "c:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application 
> Data/Bacula/Work/*.noziptest"
>      Wild File = "c:/*/*/*/*/*/*.noziptest"
>      Wild      = "c:/*/*/*/*/*/*.noziptest"
>      Wild File = "c:/*/*.noziptest"
>      Wild      = "c:/*/*.noziptest"
>      Wild File = "c:/*.noziptest"
>      Wild      = "c:/*.noziptest"
>      Wild File = "*.noziptest"
>      Wild      = "*.noziptest"
> }
> 
> Even with this whole list of alternatives, none of them seem to be matching:
>      File = "c:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application 
> Data/Bacula/Work/bacula.noziptest"
> and it's getting backed up according to my default options which 
> includes compression.

How do you know?  Maybe there is some other problem in the definitions that
you didn't post?


> So, what might I be doing wrong here?

Support for Enhanced Wild was removed long ago, so don't use it.

I would expect Wild File = "*.noziptest" to work (without Enhanced Wild).

__Martin

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