Re: Filesets: splitting a huge directory

"Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users" <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jan 2026 18:27:08 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 06.01.26 um 17:41 schrieb Martin Simmons:

> You need to use the exclude = yes option to remove some subset of the
> files/directories.  Look at the examples for /home/b in
> https://docs.baculasystems.com/BETechnicalReference/Director/DirectorResourceTypes/FilesetResource/index.html

Oh, please, not that example ;-)

That's why I came here: I didn't "like" or fully understand it, when I 
found it googling for examples.

It seems rather "un-intuitive" to me.

thanks anyway

Will give it another try, in combo with below suggestion.

>> trial and error is a bit problematic, as these jobs are terabytes in
>> size quickly.
>>
>> Do I remember correctly that someone posted some test-script for such cases?
> 
> You can use use the "estimate job=... listing" command in bconsole to see what
> will be backed up.

Will give that a try, thanks.