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Re: [Bacula-users] excluded folders being included in the backup

2012-03-09 05:08:37
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] excluded folders being included in the backup
From: Gary Stainburn <gary AT ringways.co DOT uk>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:06:22 +0000
On Thursday 08 March 2012 23:56:30 Steve Ellis wrote:
> Just a guess, but I'm thinking that this may be due to the trailing '/'
> in your 'wild' entries.  I know that for my systems, when I exclude
> (with "Ignore Case"), I'm able to exclude both files and directories
> appropriately with wild, but I never put trailing '/' in the directory
> names.  Also, just to check I ran a simple test using 'bwild' (a tool I
> was not previously aware of) and that suggested that the trailing '/'
> might be a problem (unclear since bwild doesn't actually look at
> filesystems, instead it takes filenames in a file).
>
> -se

Thanks Steve. I've removed the trailing '/' and that has fixed the problem. 
The new backup size is only 13GB.

Thanks also for mentioning bwild.

Gary

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