Re: [Bacula-users] Getting more than wanted in backup

[Geert S. <Gee...@va...>]

For the archive, the previous posting in the discussion order. Nothing new.

Op 20120620 om 17:55 schreef Clark, Patricia A.:
> On 6/18/12 2:12 PM, "Martin Simmons" <ma...@li...> wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:59:26 -0400, Clark, Patricia A said:
> >> 
> >> To get the multiple streams I've broken my filesets and their
> >> corresponding jobs into multiple pieces.  The snippets below are 2
> >> of the 7 that I created.  I am finding that I am getting everything
> >> in /home from each of these filesets and not just the subset of the
> >> home directories.  Testing with bwild suggests that the RegexDir
> >> should be correct.  So, what am I missing?
> >>
> >> FileSet {
> >>   Name = "home_dirs1 Set"
> >> # Capture /home/[0-9]*
> >>   Include {
> >>     Options {
> >>       signature = MD5
> >>       RegexDir = "/home/[0-9]*"
> >>     }
> >>     Options {
> >>       RegexDir = ".*"         <--I have also tried /home/* to be more explicit
> >>       Exclude = yes
> >>     }
> >>     File = /home
> >>   }
> >> }
> >> FileSet {
> >>   Name = "home_dirs2 Set"
> >> # Capture /home/[a-e]*
> >>   Include {
> >>     Options {
> >>       signature = MD5
> >>       RegexDir = "/home/[a-e]*"
> >>     }
> >>     Options {
> >>       RegexDir = ".*"
> >>       Exclude = yes
> >>     }
> >>     File = /home
> >>   }
> >> }
> >
> >Your main RegexDir patterns are wrong: "/home/[0-9]*" matches everything
> >starting with "/home/" because of the definition of "*" in a regex.  You
> >probably want wilddir = "/home/[0-9]*" instead.
> >
> >Also, you should wild = "*" instead of RegexDir = ".*".
> >
> >__Martin
> 
> Thank you for the suggestions.  Using wilddir on the includes works much
> better than the RegexDir.  I did find that using wild = "*" on the
> excludes was problematic.  I'd backup the directories, but none of the
> files.  I've switched to using wilddir for the excludes, too, which adds a
> level of self-documentation to the fileset. A working example shows the
> changes and I just adjust the wilddir statements for the fileset as needed.
> 
> FileSet {
>    Name = "home_dirs1 Set"
> # Capture /home/[0-9]*
>    Include {
>      Options {
>       signature = MD5
>       wilddir = "/home/[0-9]*"
>      }
>      Options {
>       wilddir = "/home/[a-z]*"
>       wilddir = "/home/[A-Z]*"
> 
>       Exclude = yes     }
>      File = /home
>    }
> }
> 


Cheers
Geert Stappers
http://www.vanadplatform.com/