The error was found to be syntax on my config.pl. Carl has a good suggestion
on it, and Les Stott also helped off list. The problem was in the way I was
passing the excludes to backuppc. Rather than blocking the directory
"Administrator" within the share module [documents], I was trying to block
the module [Administrator] which doesn't exist, so it was excluded very
effectively!
None of the excludes should be done on the windows rsyncd.conf, that doesn't
seem to work at all. it can all be done through the individual host's
config. Here is the "correct" syntax to block directories with whitespaces
in their names from the backuppc server -
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'documents'
];
$Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} = '0';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/Administrator/',
'/Application Data/',
'/All Users/',
'/Local Settings/',
'/Default User/',
'/Jennie and Andy/Desktop/',
'/Jennie and Andy/Local Settings/',
'/Jennie and Andy/My Documents/'
]
};
Obviously the asterisk could be changed to an individual module's name if
you need different excludes in each of your shares.
My thanks again go out to everyone!
Peace,
Jim
On 2/28/07, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 02/28 11:19 , Jim McNamara wrote:
> The main problem is the excludes list is supposed to be separated by
spaces,
> and of course everyone's favorite OS has spaces in directory names.
I do excludes on things like that, using a '?' in place of the spaces. So
for example:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'cDrive' => ['/RECYCLER', '/winnt/tmp', '/temp', '/WUTemp',
'/WINDOWS', '*/Temporary?Internet?Files/' ]
};
--
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com
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