James, No it didn't. I was waiting until full backup time rolled around again, but it still picked up the whole My Music directory. I also ran a number of command line backups with the "-i" switch, and it still scanned that directory.
I'm thinking an alternative approach may be better. Set up explicit shares by name and just back up those shares and then I can skip the whole issue of exclusion. Cheers - Miles James wrote: > did you get it to exclude correctly? > > > accidently replied to someone who replied to you---> On 5/14/07, > *James* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > that is likely what is actually going on, sorry I forgot to hit on > that point(I just ran into something similar earlier last week, > but the way I tested was running a new full backup), before > creating a new full back up, is it actually picking up changes in > that directory or are the original files just still showing up? > > > On 5/11/07, *Travis Fraser* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > 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]> > > > <mailto: [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] <mailto:[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/
