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Re: [Networker] Directive question - include only certain types

2009-09-28 16:31:50
Subject: Re: [Networker] Directive question - include only certain types
From: Preston de Guise <enterprise.backup AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:28:27 +1000
On 29/09/2009, at 05:57 , MIchael Leone wrote:

So I need a directive that will skip all files, except a specific list of
file types.  Specifically, I want to backup *only* media files in a
certain folder - .WAV. .MP3, etc. And to skip everything else. (this will give me a backup of only those media files. More importantly, it will give me a saveset that includes only those types .. and I can then use the info
in that saveset to go and berate .. errr .. remind ... the users that
they're not supposed to be saving that stuff).

(This would be on Windows 2003, BTW. NW 7.4.2)

Would it be:

<< H:\Users >>
       +skip:  .
       allow *.MP3
       allow *.WAV
etc etc etc

or is that what the "forget" directive does? I'm not completely following the Admin manual on this, and the examples don't show either "allow" or
"forget: with parameters, like the "skip" directive has ...

I was asked this only recently, and I don't think NetWorker is capable of the finer control of "skip everything EXCEPT these file types" ... while in theory the wildcards in the directives (e.g., skip: *.mp3) are meant to support "shell wildcard usage" (or something along those lines from the man page), I couldn't get any combination of "except/ exclude" wildcards to work.

I'd be interested if someone can get them to work ... otherwise I think it may be a docbug and a feature request.

If the users aren't meant to be saving those files at all (and there's potential copyright issues through backing them up), perhaps it's best to completely exclude them from the backup anyway then do regular filesystem searches on the host.

Cheers,

Preston.

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