On 06/16/2011 10:38 AM, Christian Manal wrote:
> Am 16.06.2011 18:12, schrieb Stuart McGraw:
>> I am having some difficulty specifying a fileset.
>> 
>> I want to exclude all dot files in home directories 
>> ("/home/*/.*"), *except* the directories "/home/*/.backup/".
>> 
>> Any hints on how to do this?
>
> I asked something simmilar a while back. Look here:
> 
>    <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27098562>

Thanks.  Scripting a file list dynamically is a little 
heavy-weight for what I was looking for though.

I was hoping that there was some way of saying "backup a/"
but exclude "a/b" but include "a/b/c", but exclude "a/b/c/d"...
i.e, includes and excludes could be cascaded somehow.

But from reading the documentation about 30 times and
the lack of response here, I conclude that it's not 
possible; one only gets one level of include/exclude.

I tried using an exclude regex, 

   regex = "^/home/[^/]+/\\.(?!backup(/|$))"

which should do what I want.  But bacula-dir complains it
is invalid.  

Does Bacula include it's own regex code?  Is it possible to
(easily) build it with a less-anemic regex library?  (I am 
using the stock Bacula-5.0.3 distributed in Fedora 15).

Finally (in case it helps someone else), I was able to use
a more basic regex that does the same as above but which is
obviously a lot less clear:
  Regex = 
"^/home/[^/]+/\\.([^b]|(b([^a]|$))|(ba([^c]|$))|(bac([^k]|$))|(back([^u]|$))|(backu([^p]|$))|(backup[^/]))"


 

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