The syntax in those files was created by the GUI, are they wrong?
On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Mark Maciolek wrote:
James Ward wrote:From the main config file (/etc/backuppc/config.pl): $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {}; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/sys' => [ '' ], '/myisi' => [ '' ], '/pifisi' => [ '' ], '/vol01' => [ '' ], '/dat01' => [ '' ], '/proc' => [ '' ], '/mnt' => [ '' ] }; From one of the failing clients (/etc/backuppc/failingclient.pl): $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/pifisi' => [ '' ], '/proc' => [ '' ], '/home' => [ '' ], '/mnt' => [ '' ], '/sys' => [ '' ], '/myisi' => [ '' ], '/dat01' => [ '' ], '/vol01' => [ '' ] }; Here's evidence that the exclude override is not being sent: Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/failingclient/XferLOG.bad.z, modified 2009-09-08 08:02:59 full backup started for directory /Running: /usr/bin/ssh -c arcfour -p 8889 -q -x -l backup failingclient sudo /var/backups/rsyncSend --server --sender -- numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /Xfer PIDs are now 31301 Got remote protocol 29 Negotiated protocol version 28Remote[2]: file has vanished: "/pifisi/.snapshot/ nightly_2009-09-07_01-00/data/...As you can see, /pifisi is the first exclude in the override settings.Any ideas? On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Michael Stowe wrote:I recently converted all my BackupPC servers to 3.1.0 and even morerecently configured one of them to back up 5 brand new clients. Theproblem is, BackupPC is not using the Override setting on BackupFilesExclude and is therefore failing trying to rsync several terabytes of Isilon network fileservers mounted on each of the 5machines. I've reloaded the config from Admin Options. What else doI need to do to get BackupPC to exclude those network filesystems? Ward... James Ward Tekco Management Group, LLC jew...@torzo.com <mailto:jew...@torzo.com> 520-290-0190x268 ICQ: 201663408All kinds of things may have gone wrong, if you've verified in the logs that the excludes aren't being sent at all, I'd suspect something wonky in your config files ... note that if you have $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} set that it takes precedence over $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}, so this might bemy first guess.If the setting appears in the individual configuration file at all, it'soverriding the main config. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/Ward... James Ward Tekco Management Group, LLC jew...@torzo.com <mailto:jew...@torzo.com> 520-290-0190x268 ICQ: 201663408 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus onwhat you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/hi, This is what works on my system: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' => [ '/tmp', '/net', '/sys', '/proc', '/dev', '/selinux', '/space', '/net' ] }; -- Mark Maciolek Network Administrator Morse Hall 339 862-3050 m...@sr.unh.edu https://www.sr.unh.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus onwhat you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Ward... James Ward Tekco Management Group, LLC jew...@torzo.com 520-290-0190x268 ICQ: 201663408
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
_______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/