Miles Thompson wrote:
> 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
>
it will work. But it depends on your share name and where that is. The
excludes are relative to the share name.
so if your share name is "sarah" and that is a share off the root of c drive
then your excludes are relative to C.
thus
$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'sarah';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/My Music','/Windows','Program Files'];
means exclude c:\My Music, c:\Windows and C:\Program Files
if your share name was "docsandsettings" and that was shared at
"c:\Documents and Settings", and you wanted to exclude My Pictures in
every users profile you would use
$Conf{SmbShareName} = 'docsandsettings';
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/*/My Documents/My Pictures'];
You also dont need to specify dos 8:3 names. It works fine as above. Perhaps
also the uppercase was causing you grief.
Hope this helps.
les
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