Dan,
Thanks - that was it. What you said made sense when I thought about it. I
left out the share name from the exclude line and my first backup has just
completed!!
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From: dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 December 2007 16:27
To: GerryMc
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Correct syntax for Exclude
i think the problem is that you are excluding the share, which you should
not do. the exclude works from the top directory of each share so what you
are asking it to exclude is turning out to be \\My Data (E)\My Data
(E)\DigiTV Recordings\*
try doing it without the share name in the exclude
On Dec 8, 2007 1:54 AM, GerryMc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am new to Linux but so far have got Ubuntu installed on a spare box
and
added backuppc to perform a backup role for my two Windows machines.
Backuppc is running and starts a backup but fails because of lack of
disk
space, the problem being large video files which I don't actually want
to
backup.
I am using SMB and I have the specified the Windows share as 'My Data
(E)'
which is what it is shared as under Windows. I must have got that right
as
it starts to backup that share. Within 'My Data (E)' is a folder of
video
files named 'DigiTV Recordings' which I want to exclude. I have
specified an
exclude which I have named 'My Data (E)/DigiTV Recordings/*' That must
be
wrong as it proceeds to backup that folder and then fails because of
lack of
space. What is wrong with my Exclude statement syntax?
Should I have the slashes as / or as \ when specifying folders on a
Windows
machine?
I added the * at the end in line with backuppc config file advice to
catch
sub-folders within the specified folder. Is that right?
Thanks
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