I had previously posted about a problem I was
having with backup file selection. I might
have discovered a bug. Just to
make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong, I
removed all traces of BackupPC and reinstalled
it from scratch. So I now have a virgin installation
of BackupPC 3.1 on a CentOS5 x86 system.
I'm using the rsync transport.

I have a client on which I want to only backup
the /etc/namedb directory and the /etc/namedb.conf
file.

My server configuration has nothing in
BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude.
My client configuration has /etc/namedb and
/etc/namedb.conf in BackupFilesOnly with
Override selected, and nothing in BackupFilesExclude.

When I run a full backup of the client, the whole system
gets backed up!! I was expecting on the things
I had specified in the client configuration to be
backed up. What am I doing wrong?

Also, I read the documentation and learned that if the smb
transport is being used, there are rules about what happens
if both BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude and specified.
Why do these rules only apply when smb is used, and not
when rsync is used?

What I'm trying to do is very basic so I'm mystified
why it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated?

Cordially,

-- 
Jon Forrest
Unix Computing Support
College of Chemistry
173 Tan Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
94720-1460
510-643-1032
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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