Any way to exclude files from fbackup?

[Tim Medford]

Does anyone have a trick for excluding files while using fbackup? Seems like the "e" option works only on directories.

Thanks
Tim

[Mike Smith_33]

I use a graph file and put the excludes in there

fbackup -g filename

filename contents
i /oracledate
e /unwantedfile

the i includes the e excludes

[Stefano Ferri]

Hi Tim,

if you have this situation

Directory /test
File in /test
test1
test2

If you use this command :

fbackup -f /tmp/mybck.bk -i /test -e /test/test1

You have in backup all files without test1

Good luck,

Stefano

[Tim Medford]

Thanks guys. I think I'm running into a problem because I'm trying to use a mask. It seems to ignore it, for example:

i /ora_data
e /ora_data/oradata/*.dbf

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

The * doesn't mean anything to fbackup. It's confusing because the shell will magically change * into matching filenames. But this doesn't work in fbackup. -e works on individual files or directories but they must be completely named.

[Tim Medford]

Thanks Bill.

I guess what I need to do is run a find command and dynamically create my graph file with the appropriately named "e" files each time.

That should work, just a bit more work than using a mask.

Thanks,
Tim