James, Thank you for the suggestion, but it did not work. The script never enters "Program Files" or "Windows", but has no such hesitation about "My Music".
I have had another thought - could it be continuing to visit this directory because it was included in the original full backup? Regards - Miles Thompson James wrote: > you may need to add '/My\ Music' or '/My Music' to your list of > directories to exclude, I can't remember at the moment if you need to > escape the space (using the backslash) or whether '/My Music' will > work, one of those two should work though, I would guess that this is > happening because samba accesses the folders with their full names > rather than their msdos shortened names > > let me know if that works for you > > On 5/11/07, *Miles Thompson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I have figured out most of BackupPC, but on some machine, directories > excluded in their configuration files are still being backed up. > > >From target machine's configuration file: > $Conf{SmbShareName} = 'sarah'; > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/MYMUSI~1','/WINDOWS','PROGRA~1']; > > Two sections from the log for last night's incremental backup follow. > >From the very top of it: > > Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\yoohoo\\sarah -I 192.168.1.9 > <http://192.168.1.9> -U buop -E -N -d 1 -c tarmode\ inc -TcNrX > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/yoohoo/timeStamp.level0 - /MYMUSI~1 /WINDOWS > PROGRA~1 > Xfer PIDs are now 18432,18431 > cmdExecOrEval: about to exec /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\yoohoo\\sarah > -I 192.168.1.9 <http://192.168.1.9> -U buop -E -N -d 1 -c tarmode\ > inc -TcNrX /var/lib/backuppc/pc/yoohoo/timeStamp.level0 - > /MYMUSI~1 /WINDOWS PROGRA~1 > Getting files newer than Fri May 4 13:13:13 2007 > tar_re_search set > Domain=[YOOHOO] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] > tarmode is now incremental, system, hidden, noreset, verbose > > and then further down, what I thought had been excluded: > > create d 755 0/0 0 My Music > create d 755 0/0 0 My Music/ABBA > create d 755 0/0 0 My Music/ABBA/Flip n Fill > create d 755 0/0 0 My Music/ACDC > create d 755 0/0 0 My Music/Aerosmith > create d 755 0/0 0 My Music/Afro Man > create d 755 0/0 0 My Music/Aimee Mann > > Suggestions or a steer in the right direction would be appreciated. > > Regards - Miles Thompson > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users> > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
