I have been using smbclient as the transfer method, and could not get the exclusions to work as per the documentation. I saw in the archives that this question has come up before.
I experimented a bit and found that the exclusions do work, and more than one exclusion can be used. The trick was to prefix a backslash to the directory or file that is excluded. Forward slashes did not work. The exclusions are relative to the root of the share, of course. I am using samba-3.0.14a on a Gentoo box, backing up Windows XP Pro and Server 2003. Some examples: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo' ] $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '\foo', '\*\bar' ] Per-share excludes can be done as well: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { 'share1$' => [ '\foo' , '\bar' ], 'share2$' => [ '\foobar' ], }; -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/