On Jul 16, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:

>>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:44:03 -0700, Mark Nienberg said:
>>
>> Chris Howells wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to configure bacula to exclude directories (and their
>>> subdirectories), from my backup, if that directory contains a  
>>> file with
>>> a particular name. As an example, to manage the amount that we  
>>> backup,
>>> we 'touch DO-NOT-BACKUP' in directories that need not be backed  
>>> up to
>>> automatically get them excluded from the backup without having to
>>> manually mess around with exclude lists.
>>>
>>
>> This feature has already been added to the bacula version 3, so it  
>> will show up when
>> that is released.
>
> Is this somehing portable or are you referring to the  
> HonorNoDumpFlag option,
> which uses the BSD-specific nodump flag?


It is portable.  It is configurable.  It not OS specific.

 From memory, the file name is configured in the FileSet.  You can  
name it .NoBACKUP
or whatever you like.  Any directory that contains that file name is  
not backed up.

-- 
Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/






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