>>>>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:22:37 +0200, Avi Rozen said:
> 
> Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd like to cherry pick directories to backup and have them restored
> >> with correct ownership and permissions...
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong? Is this the expected behavior?
> >>     
> >
> > Yes, this is the expected behavior.
> >
> > During a backup, Bacula looks inside the directories you give in the 'File 
> > ='
> > lines and doesn't save any information about the parents.
> >
> >   
> 
> Would be nice if it did...
> 
> > It is difficult to get the cherry picking behaviour, but I think it is
> > possible.  You need to start higher up the tree and use two Options clauses 
> > to
> > select the files to include and exclude.  The first Options clause must 
> > match
> > only what you want to back up (the parent directories themselves plus the
> > cherry picked files/directories, but not other contents of the parent
> > directories).  The second Options clause should use wild = "*" and 
> > Exclude=yes
> > to remove everything else.
> >   
> 
> Thanks for the explanation and tips.
> 
> I tried it and a few other file set configurations, based on the
> examples in [1], specifically the following, which is supposed to
> include only home directories of users whose usernames start with either
> 'a' or 'b':
> 
> FileSet {
>   Name = "Full Set"
>   Include {
>      Options {
>         wilddir = "/home/a*"
>         wilddir = "/home/b*"
>      }
>      Options {
>         RegexDir = ".*"
>         exclude = yes
>      }
>      File = /home
>   }
> }
> 
> But I can't get bacula to do what I want. I tried  the following file
> set to backup files in my test directory, but it excludes everything
> except for files in the root directory:
> 
> FileSet {
>   Name = test-fileset
>   Include {
>     Options {
>         wilddir =
> "/home/avrozen/temp/bacula-test/owned-by-root/owned-by-avrozen/owned-by-bacula"
>     }
>     Options {
>         regexdir = ".*"
>         Exclude = yes
>     }
>     File = /
>   }
> }
> 
> Any ideas? What am I missing?

You need to match the parent directories themselves and then the contents of
owned-by-bacula:

FileSet {
  Name = test-fileset
  Include {
    Options {
        # Match all directories leading up to the cherry picked directory
        regexdir = "^/home$"
        regexdir = "^/home/avrozen$"
        regexdir = "^/home/avrozen/temp$"
        regexdir = "^/home/avrozen/temp/bacula-test$"
        regexdir = "^/home/avrozen/temp/bacula-test/owned-by-root$"
        regexdir = 
"^/home/avrozen/temp/bacula-test/owned-by-root/owned-by-avrozen$"
        # Match the cherry picked directory itself
        regexdir = 
"^/home/avrozen/temp/bacula-test/owned-by-root/owned-by-avrozen/owned-by-bacula$"
        # Match the contents of the cherry picked directory
        wild = 
"/home/avrozen/temp/bacula-test/owned-by-root/owned-by-avrozen/owned-by-bacula/*"
    }
    Options {
        # Skip everything else
        wild = "*"
        Exclude = yes
    }
    File = /
  }
}

Note the $ at the end of each regexdir to make it match only the directory and
nothing else with that prefix.

__Martin

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