Re: [Bacula-devel] turning off "... is a different filesystem. Will not descend" messages

[Ulrich L. <ulr...@ob...>]

Hi,

we are using a special fileset to reduce messages since a few days,
it's not perfect, but it reduced the warning messages.

BR
Ulrich


FileSet {
  Name = "FullWin7Set"
  Ignore FileSet Changes = yes
  Include {
    Options {
      compression = GZIP
      signature = SHA1
      IgnoreCase = yes
      Exclude = yes
      
      # Exclude junction points
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Dokumente und Einstellungen"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Program Files/Gemeinsame Dateien"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Program Files/Windows NT/Zubehör"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Anwendungsdaten"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Application Data"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Desktop"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Documents"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Dokumente"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Favoriten"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Favorites"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programme"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Start Menu"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Startmenü"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Templates"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/ProgramData/Vorlagen"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Documents and Settings"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/All Users"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/Default User"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/AppData/Local/Application Data"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/AppData/Local/Anwendungsdaten"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/AppData/Local/History"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/AppData/Local/Verlauf"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Application Data"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Anwendungsdaten"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Gemeinsame Dateien"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Cookies"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Documents/My Music"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Documents/Eigene Musik"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Documents/My Pictures"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Documents/Eigene Bilder"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Documents/My Videos"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Documents/Eigene Videos"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Local Settings"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Lokale Einstellungen"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/My Documents"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Eigene Dateien"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/NetHood"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Netzwerkumgebung"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/PrintHood"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Druckumgebung"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Recent"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/SendTo"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Start Menu"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Startmenü"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Templates"
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Users/*/Vorlagen"

      # Temporary directories & files
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Windows/Temp"

      # Recycle bins
      WildDir = "[A-Z]:/RECYCLER"
      
      # Swap files
      WildFile = "[A-Z]:/pagefile.sys"
    }
    ExcludeDirContaining = "bacula_exclude.dir"
    File = "C:/"
    File = "\\<C:/bacula_include.txt"
  }
}


On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:00 +0200, Henrik Johansen wrote:
> 'James Harper' wrote:
> >Looking at the code, the "... is a different filesystem. Will not
> >descend ..." messages are M_INFO type and there is no way to filter
> >them. The number of these messages is tolerable with a Linux system but
> >windows Vista/2008 and newer make insane use of junction points
> >(~symlinks) and so on a system with lots of user profiles we get
> >hundreds of these, and they are essentially useless information - I
> >can't think of a case where they might be useful except for the first
> >time you run a backup to check what is happening.
> >
> >Can we have a new message class to put these messages into? I'm not sure
> >if it makes sense to group all of the "... Will not descend." Messages
> >into one group or if they need a message type each.
> 
> +1
> 
> We are backing up ~900+ machines and many of those are W2K8 boxes. The
> level of noise from "... is a different ... Will not ..." is massive and
> causes much confusing.
> 
> >Thanks
> >
> >James
> >
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