Re: [Bacula-users] Windows fileset problem

[Karl C. <ka...@ec...>]

--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:24 PM +0100 Kern Sibbald
<ke...@si...> wrote:

> I'm happy this is working the way you want.
> 
> To the list:
> 
> This user's question has brought to my attention that the current
> include/exclude algorithm is not giving the results I wanted, and maybe
> some of you have an idea or two on how to fix it.
> 
> The problem is that if you want to include only a few types of files as
> this user did, there is really no good way to do it.  The problem is
> that the default is to include everything, and you can then easily
> exclude certain files, but the inverse is not really possible.
> 
> That is if you start by saying let's exclude everything, then include
> only the files we want, you end up excluding everything. Why? Because if
> you try to do something like the following:
> 
> Include {
>     Options {
>       signature=MD5
>       wild = "*.dbx"
>       wild = "*.doc"
>     }
>     Options {
>        wild = "*"
>        exclude = yes
>     }
>     File = /home
> }
> 
> Where you have set the default to exclude everything, and the exception
> to include a few files (.dbx and .doc in this example), you end up
> excluding "/home" and everything under it. 
> 
> I suppose there could be some sort of "include only = yes" that says
> exclude everything but the selected files, but that is not totally
> satisfactory because then the directories must still be traversed (OK
> that is possible, but it would be an exception), and the directories in
> the path of the files backed up would not be saved without a lot of very
> complicated code.
> 
> So, unless someone has a trick that I am missing, there is no way to
> only include .dbx and .doc files. 

Kern --

If you're asking for suggestions that utilize the current file selection
logic, I'm sorry I don't have anything.

If you're talking about changing the logic... It seems the problem here is
that wildcards affect directory selection as well as file selection,
especially the "everything" wildcard "*".  Perhaps WildFile and WildDir
resources could be used to separate them.

Karl Cunningham