On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:28:27AM +1000, Preston de Guise wrote:
> On 29/09/2009, at 05:57 , MIchael Leone wrote:
> >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.
My assumption is that +skip: will stop examining from that point
forward. So it will never see the contents to be able to not exclude
them. I think replacing the skip with a null might work, but then
you're backing up all the other filenames, just not the contents.
--
Darren
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