On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 15:22 -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: > 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? > What does the smb share "sarah" refer to? My guess is a user's directory under "Documents and Settings." If so, that is why two of the excludes appear to work. The third exclude will most likely work with a backslash instead of the forward slash e.g. '\My Music' or '\My\ Music'.
> 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']; > > -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
