Hi,
Documentation is a bit vague regarding wildcard support in the FileSet
resource:
1. It states repeatedly that wildcards are not supported in the file lists
inside Include {...} directive. Does this mean that they *are* supported
inside Exclude {...} file lists? Note, I do not mean Options {...} clause, I
am talking about the file lists itself.
2.
---from p. 160 of main.pdf---
5. When using wild-cards or regular expressions, directory names are always
terminated with a slash (/) and filenames have no trailing slash.
---quote ends---
The above description is not clear and examples included in the documentation
do not follow this rule. For instance:
---from p. 173 of main.pdf---
FileSet {
Name = "Full Set"
Include {
Options {
wilddir = "/home/a*"
wilddir = "/home/b*"
}
Options {
RegexDir = ".*"
exclude = yes
}
File = /home
}
}
---quote ends---
3. Someone please translate into plain English for me the following paragraph.
Unfortunately, I cannot understand what the author wanted to tell us here:
---from p. 160 of main.pdf---
The Options resource is optional, but when specified, it will contain a list
of keyword=value options to be applied to the file-list. See below for the
definition of file-list. Multiple Options resources may be specified one after
another. As the files are found in the specified directories, the Options will
applied to the filenames to determine if and how the file should be backed up.
The wildcard and regular expression pattern matching parts of the Options
resources are checked in the order they are specified in the FileSet until the
first one that matches. Once one matches, the compression and other flags
within the Options specification will apply to the pattern matched. A key
point is that in the absence of an Option or no other Option is matched, every
file is accepted for backing up. This means that if you want to exclude
something, you must explicitly specify an Option with an exclude = yes and
some pattern matching.
---quote ends---
Does this mean that "the compression and other flags within the Options
specification" will apply *only* "to the pattern matched"? This is not how it
works, as far as I know. Options apply to all files in the file lists as well.
"A key point is that in the absence of an Option or no other Option is
matched, every file is accepted for backing up."
This apparently talks about wildcard options (only) but there are other types
of options, for which this statement will not be true. Very confusing.
Thanks,
Ivan
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