On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 18:28 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > Yes, I remember this patch quite well, because (amazingly enough) I just > finished the first cut of the documentation (a bit crude at the moment) for > this feature, and it will be posted to the web site in a few minutes in the > New Features chapter of the development manual. The New Features chapter is > near the beginning of the Bacula Concepts document. > > http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html > > On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:54:30 Ulrich Leodolter wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i remember a patch on this (or users) list which > > allows exclude on client side by touching special > > files. e.g > > > > touch /private/.nobackup > > > > will exclude all files under /private > > > > the filename ".nobackup" could be specified by > > server side config option. > > > > > > anyone remembers this patch? > > is it in svn? > > Yes, the code is integrated into the trunk svn. I no longer have the > original > patch, so if you want it, you will need to look through the developer's email > list for the original email. In fact, if I remember right, the patch was for > the trunk. At this time, we are not planning to back port it to 2.4.x since > it requires a change of the protocol between the Director and the Client. > > You are, of course, welcome to try the trunk code, but it is not yet > production ready. However, within the next few weeks (once we have at least > some minimal documentation), we are planning to release a beta version of > this code (version 2.5.x) which appears to be quite stable.
thanks for the infos, i am running the svn trunk for a few months doing "svn up" about every week. i can confirm: it is quite stable. maybe u remember i am also running a daily CopyDiskToTape job. +-------+------------+-------------------+ | Jobs | Files | Bytes | +-------+------------+-------------------+ | 1,839 | 28,479,255 | 1,430,345,673,409 | +-------+------------+-------------------+ this is our current client version list (redhat = centos :-) 2.5.3 (08Aug08) i686-pc-linux-gnu,redhat,Enterprise release (director) 2.4.2 (26Jul08) i686-redhat-linux-gnu,redhat 2.5.3 (30Aug08) i686-pc-linux-gnu,debian,lenny/sid 2.4.2 (26Jul08) Linux,Cross-compile,Win32 2.2.7 (24Dec07) powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0,darwin,8.11.0 2.4.2 (26Jul08) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu,redhat 2.4.2 (26Jul08) i686-redhat-linux-gnu,redhat 2.4.2 (26Jul08) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu,redhat 2.4.2 (26Jul08) i686-redhat-linux-gnu,redhat i will try the IgnoreDir option. what happens when IgnoreDir ist used in a common FileSet definition which is also used by older (<2.5) clients ? as soon as 2.5 is out we will use it (replacing emc networker) for all our linux servers + linux mac win workstations. any release plans for 2.5, maybe end of september? (my chief is also waiting :-) ulrich -- Ulrich Leodolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OBVSG ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
