On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:

>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:34:10 -0800, Steven Schlansker said:
>> 
>> Looking through the documentation, there's no obvious way to guarantee order 
>> or backups within a FileSet.  Is there some particular
>> order that Bacula uses that I can rely on portably?  (I assume not, but 
>> would love if there is)  If not, would it be hard to add an 
>> option that say ensures that backups recurse in e.g. alphabetical order?
>> 
>> I know I could set up two FileSets and two Jobs, but that is both more 
>> complex and makes doing differential / incremental backups and restores much 
>> more complicated.  I'd prefer to have a single job that does it all.
> 
> The problem is larger than just guaranteeing the order -- you also have to
> generate the list of WAL files after the main data files have been archived.
> 
> You could make a fileset with two Include sections, one which starts at / but
> excludes the WAL files (with the Exclude = yes option) and other that includes
> only the WAL files.  The main data files would be archived by the first
> Include section.

So, Bacula will process the Include directives in order?  I couldn't find that 
in the manual, but if
if's true that is exactly what I need.  Thanks!



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