Ah.  That's good to know.  I'd wondered if there was something like
that.  I like it, since it consolidates the two steps (pre-job
processing, and reading the list of paths) down to 1 script, as well as
avoiding writing to a temporary file.

I need to finish vetting this tomorrow, but preliminarily, that looks
great.  Thanks for the info.

Lloyd

On 04/13/2016 02:23 PM, Heitor Faria wrote:
> Just in time: I tested and it works.
>
> # bacula-dir.conf
>
> FileSet {
>   Name = "Full Set"
>   Include {
>     Options {
>       signature = MD5
>     }
>     File = "\\|/tmp/list.sh"
>   }
> }
>
> # /tmp/list.sh 
> ls /tmp/dummy*
>
> *list files jobid=8
> +----------+
> | Filename |
> +----------+
> | /tmp/dummy1 |
> | /tmp/dummy2 |
> | /tmp/dummy3 |
> +----------+
> +-------+---------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+----------+-----------+
> | JobId | Name          | StartTime           | Type | Level | JobFiles | 
> JobBytes | JobStatus |
> +-------+---------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+----------+-----------+
> |     8 | BackupClient1 | 2016-04-13 16:56:37 | B    | F     |        3 |     
>    0 | T         |
> +-------+---------------+---------------------+------+-------+----------+----------+-----------+
>
> Regards,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Heitor Faria" <heitor AT bacula.com DOT br>
>> To: "Lloyd Brown" <lloyd_brown AT byu DOT edu>
>> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 4:46:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] relative order of scripts vs files
>>> Heitor,
>>>
>>> I don't know if this will affect anything, but your example backs up the
>>> file "/tmp/dummy".  What I'm trying to do is read from a file, to get
>>> the list of files to be backed up.  It's a difference between this syntax:
>>>
>>>>     File = /tmp/dummy
>>> And something more like this:
>>>
>>>>     File = "\\</tmp/dummy"
>> Hello, Lloyd: now I see.
>> I think calling scripts from Bacula configuration is not vastly documented, 
>> but
>> I think using shell redirect will never work. You can try this:
>>
>> "\\|/etc/bacula/scripts/files_list.sh"
>>
>> And the script should print the path to the files.
>> This is an adapation of another script documented here:
>> http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=application_specific_backups:postgresql
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> ===========================================================================
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>> Administrator II
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