[Samba] smclient-excludes

[Rácz Attila]

2003. november 14. 12.48 dátummal Stefan G. Weichinger ezt írta:
> Hello, samba-users,
>
> I am using Amanda to backup WinNT-shares.
>
> Amanda uses smbclient to generate smbtar-archives which it then writes
> to tape.
>
> As you all know there are various files on Windows-system-partitions
> that donŽt need to be on backup.
>
> For example stuff like
>
> pagefile.sys
> System Volume Information
> hiberfil.sys
>
> and the registry files.
>
> So there is a need to exclude files from getting into the
> archives/tapes. One reason is to keep stuff small, another is to
> eliminate annoying errors coming from open files.
>
> ---
>
> smbclient can exclude stuff via the "-X" option.
>
> Jon LaBadie and I have tried various approaches to exclude multiple
> items which may be contained in some kind of exclude-list (similar to
> the exclude file amanda uses for gnutar-backups). Jon has written a
> small smbclient-wrapper to feed the multiple options to smbclient, but
> it doesnŽt work out so far.
>
> We found that multiple includes are supported by the "-I" option, but
> it seems that there is only supported ONE exclude by the "-X" option.
>
> It is always the first item given that is excluded.
>
> Also we could not exactly figure out how all this relates to using "-r".
>
> So the questions are:
>
> - Can we exclude multiple items from being processed by smbclient via
> "-X"? Or somehow else?
>
> - If yes, could someone point us to the right syntax?

You can list all the files excludable in the form:
-X "file_1" "file_2" "file_n"
Filenames need to be exactly the same that smbtar echos without -X.
It seems no wildcards allowed.

>
> - How to understand the "-r" option? Does "HAVE_REGEX_H" to be
> compiled into client.c/clitar.c to support regexes? The behavior of
> "-r" does not change the way we expected from reading the manuals.
>

Sorry, I haven't used -r so far.

> Thank you all,
> Stefan G. Weichinger
> mailto:monitor at oops.co.at

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