Thanks. Food for thought.

Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Larry Mascarenhas <LMascare AT verizon DOT 
> net 
> <mailto:LMascare AT verizon DOT net>> wrote:
> 
>     I have a scenario whereby I want to exclude a type of file in a FS. eg I
>     have /u, /u1 etc. Each of these FS have subdirectories
>     /u/subdir1,
>     /u/subdir1/subdir2...
>     /u/subdir2/subdir3....
> 
>     /u1/subdir1/subdir2...
>     /u1/subdir2/subdir3...
> 
>     ... etc)
> 
>     The go down a few (maybe 5-6) levels.
> 
>     I need to exclude files (eg *.o) in FS /u and its subdirectories, but
>     not in /u1. So my exclude file looks like this
> 
>     /u/subdir*/*.o
>     /u/subdir*/*/*.o
> 
>     Apart from slowing down my processing (the .o files is just an example),
>     it will actually speed up the backup because I can exclude 500Gig off a
>     700Gig FS.
> 
>     But of course, this doesn't work too well. Any pointers in the general
>     direction regarding setting up a good regular expression match would
>     help tremendously. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Includes take precedence over excludes so you can probably do an exclude 
> of *.o, then an include of the more specific directories that you really 
> do want backed up.  This is the approach we do for database files - an 
> exclude of ORADATA in the general policy and then an explicit include in 
> the database-specific policy.  I'd probably break that u1 backup into a 
> special policy - that makes the includes/excludes a bit easier to define 
> and understand.
> 
> Obviously careful testing is required.
> 
>    .../Ed
> 
>     -- 
>     Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
>     ewilts AT ewilts DOT org <mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
> 

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