I’m a big fan of careful management of directives – for instance, I always go by the axiom that it’s better to backup a little bit too much and waste some tape than it is to not backup enough and not be able to recover.<\/p>\n
That being said, I’m also a big fan of correct use of directives within NetWorker – skipping files that 100% are not required, adjusting preferences for the way files are backed up (e.g., logasm), etc., are quite important to getting well running backups.<\/p>\n
So needless to say it bugs the hell out of me<\/em> that after all this time, you still can’t include a directive within a directive.<\/p>\n Or rather, you can, but it’s through a method called “copy and paste”, which as we know, doesn’t lend itself too well to auto updating functionality.<\/p>\n So the current directive format is:<\/p>\n For example, you might want directives for a system such as:<\/p>\n Now, it could be that for every Unix system, you also<\/em> want to include Unix Standard Directives<\/em>. Currently the only way to do this is to create a new directive where you’ve copied and pasted in all the Unix Standard Directives then added in your above criteria.<\/p>\n This, to use the appropriate technical term, is a dogs breakfast.<\/p>\n The only logical way, the way which obviously hasn’t been developed yet for NetWorker but falls into the category of “why the hell not<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/em>” would be support for include statements. That way, it could be embedded into the directive itself.<\/p>\n For example, what I’m talking about is that we should be able to do the following:<\/p>\n Now wouldn’t that be nice? Honestly, how hard could it be?<\/p>\n NB: The correct answer to “how hard could it be?” is actually “I don’t care.”<\/em><\/strong> That is, there’s some things that should be done regardless of whether they’re easy to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a big fan of careful management of directives – for instance, I always go by the axiom that it’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[325,459],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker","category-quibbles","tag-directives","tag-include"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<< path >>\n[+]asm: criteria<\/pre>\n
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