>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:19:33 -0400, Dan Langille said:
> 
> 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.

Thanks, I've found it now.  It is the IgnoreDir option.

__Martin

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