Re: [Bacula-users] Changes to filesets not having any effect, possibly a bug?

[Martin S. <ma...@li...>]

>>>>> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:34:02 -0500, Steve Polyack said:
> 
> Hello all,
> I've made changes to a job's fileset, but it does not seem to have any 
> effect.  By doing a SELECT in the bacula database, I'm able to see that 
> files which are part of a path which I've added to an Exclude block are 
> still being backed up.
> ...
> I've also noticed that the "Example" fileset and its associated MD5 in 
> the Bacula database do not get updated after a bconsole reload. The 
> manual states "Any change to the list of the included files will cause 
> Bacula to automatically create a new FileSet (defined by the name and an 
> MD5 checksum of the Include/Exclude contents)".
> 
> Has anyone ran into this before?  Is there something I'm missing that is 
> preventing the fileset changes from taking effect?  FYI I'm using 
> Bacula-3.0.3 on FreeBSD with a PostgreSQL 8.3 database.

If this is still a problem, then double-check that the Director is using the
config file that you are editing!  E.g. put a deliberate syntax error in the
file and see what reload/restart does.

__Martin