Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Comments in generated file lists?

2008-07-18 07:32:03
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Comments in generated file lists?
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:31:46 +0100
>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:38:52 +0200, Arno Lehmann said:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 17.07.2008 21:37, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:59:34 -0400, Patrick LeBoutillier said:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> We use the following construct to generate the files we want Bacula to
> >> backup for a specific job:
> >>
> >> FileSet {
> >>         Name = "archiver"
> >>         Include {
> >>                 Options {
> >>                         signature = MD5
> >>                 }
> >>                 File = "\\|sh -c '/root/bin/bacula-filelist.sh %v %i'"
> >>         }
> >> }
> >>
> >> We would like to be able to include comments in the generated file
> >> list because we also save it to a file for processing.
> >> We tried adding a '#' at the beginning of a line but Bacula complains:
> >>
> >>   Could not stat #ARCHIVE 
> >> /home/abc/20080311_dIU4pboPl8JWiGauZNrN0V40rJ45egiW
> >>
> >> Is there a supported comment marker for generated file lists?
> > 
> > No, you'll have to filter them within the script, e.g. with grep -v.
> 
> Or, alternatively, let your script create a list of complete File= 
> entries... the include syntax works everywhere, so you can generate 
> output like
> 
> # home directories
> File = /home/
> # data
> File = /var/
> 
> and so on.

That will only work at config-loading time on the Director machine though, so
not with dynamic \| file lists on the client.

__Martin

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