>>>>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:46:27 -0400, John Drescher said:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Milwell H. Sia <milwell AT milwell DOT com> 
> wrote:
> > I'm using Bacula 2.2.8 and Ubuntu 7.10, the client is windows xp.
> >
> > I have to backup a really big workstation and one strategy i have come
> > up with is to backup by letter.
> > for example, i'll make a fileset that backs up all directories in d:
> > that starts with A or a.
> > So the fileset looks like:
> >
> > FileSet{
> >  name = "fileset-A"
> >  include{
> >   options{
> >     compression = GZIP
> >     wild  = "d:/A*"
> >     wild  = "d:/a*"
> >   }
> >   File = "d:/"
> >  }
> > }
> >
> > but it seems to be bacula still backs up  all files in d:
> >
> This is the expected and correct behavior. The line File = D:/ means
> the entire d: drive. I believe the wild parts in the options are
> meaningless. You can have wild parts in excludes or in place of the
> File  = D: but not in the options.

No, you can't put wildcards in the File= line, only in the options.

I think it can be done by adding a second options clause like this to exclude
anything that does not match the first one:

options {
 exclude = yes
 wild = "*"
}

__Martin

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