Why not just do /my/huge/dir

No trailing slash or wildcard. It ignores the directory, not the files
in it.

On 10/06/2010 10:56 AM, Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy wrote:
> Dear Gurus,
> Apologies for the beginner's question...
>
> I have noticed from looking at the bpbkar log that the backup hangs on
> the directory which has 1.5 million files in it (client is RHEL 5.2
> with NetBackup 6.5, server is RHEL 5.5 with NetBackup 6.5.6) . "ls -al
> /my/huge/dir" takes 3-4 hours, the file system is GFS which makes it
> even slower. No surprise that NetBackup is having trouble.
>
>
> I am trying to exclude the problematic directory from the backup and
> added "/my/huge/dir/*" to /usr/openv/netbackup/exclude_list. I'd like
> to avoid reading this huge list of files but this doesn't achive the
> purpose. Please see the last lines from bpbkar log :
>
> 12:28:41.917 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaa
> by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
> 12:28:41.933 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaan
> by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
> 12:28:41.943 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaab
> by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
> 12:28:41.948 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaac
> by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
> 12:28:41.959 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaaz
> by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
> 12:28:41.969 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - Excluded /my/huge/dir/file_aaag
> by exclude_list entry /my/huge/dir/*
> 12:28:55.288 [3560] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar killed by SIGPIPE
> 12:28:55.289 [3560] <16> bpbkar: ERR - bpbkar FATAL exit status = 40:
> network connection broken
> 12:28:55.289 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - EXIT STATUS 40: network connection 
> broken
> 12:28:55.289 [3560] <4> bpbkar: INF - setenv FINISHED=0
>
> It looks like bpbkar is trying to go through each and every file in
> "/my/huge/dir" and trying to make a decision on each file
> individually.
>
>
> QUESTION: Is it possible to avoid the "/my/huge/dir/" as a whole and
> avoid reading the directory contents?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy
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