Ron Abramson wrote:
> I just started with BackupPC. I am using rsync to back up my Linux
> machines, and it is working. However, I want to exclude some large,
> nonessential files and directories from the backup. I put a
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} line in the config file for the Linux
> client in question, but it does not seem to be having any effect
> (BackupPC continues to back up the "Excluded" directories). The
> examples of that command in the docs come up in the context of tar
> backups, which I am not doing. Are you supposed to use some other
> config option in order to exclude files and directories with rsync?
Works fine for me. Are you sure you have the syntax correct? My
config looks like this:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '/proc', '/mnt' ];
Also, check for typos. It probably won't complain if you misspell
"Conf" or "BackupFilesExclude", it just won't work.
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