Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Paul Fox wrote:
> > i missed the discussion of this change, and can't find it in my
> > saved mail:
> > > * Fixed handling of $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} for tar XferMethod.
> > > Patch supplied by Frans Pop.
>
> It's not a change. It's a fix for a regression from 2.1.2 to 3.0.0. See:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200708121944.00852.elendil%40planet.nl&forum_name=backuppc-devel
> and the Debian bug report linked from there.
>
> > do current users of exclude and tar need to make any changes?
>
> Possibly, but only if you worked around the regression in some way.
thanks.
your bug report says:
Since BackupPC 3.0 Xfer/Tar.pm prepends "./" before _all_
file exclusions. Effectively, this means that it is no
longer possible to exclude files by name only, you would
always have to list the full path for each individual file.
my excludes say:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/proc',
'/sys',
'*._nobackup_'
]
};
combining the two, i would conclude that my exclude of files
whose names match '*._nobackup_' should not work. but my
exclude is working fine -- no files or directories with that name
form get backed up.
so i'm confused. did i "work around the regression in some way"? :-)
paul
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