On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:56:59AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:54 AM, C. Ronoz <chro...@eproxy.nl> wrote: > > I found out that BackupPC is ignoring my Excludes though, while I have a > > 15GB /pub partition. > > This could explain why the run takes longer, but it should still finish > > within an hour? > > Rsnapshot runs were always lightning fast, network is 1gbit. > > > > $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {}; > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {'/proc', '/blaat', '/pub', '/tmp'}; > > You have to setup the excludes to match the transfer method you're > using. In the case of rsync I believe they must be relative to the > backup root. > > Here's a snippet from my config. Since I mainly backup home > directories I exclude stuff like cache and other folder that don't > need to be backed up. > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '*' => [ > '.cache', > '.thumbnails', > '.gvfs', > '.xsession-errors', > '.recently-used.xbel', > '.recent-applications.xbel', > '.Private', > '.mozilla' > ] > }; > > Notice there are no '/' on the front of my excludes. Until I setup > things like this my excludes didn't work. > > Richard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I see how you use excludes to exclude back-ups of files with specific extensions, but then how do I now exclude specific paths per host? I am planning to back-up about 15 Linux webservers with different roles. Some host specific archives that take up much space, but do not require back-ups. e.g. 1 server hosts 50GB of downloads in /pub. Another server hosts 10GB of internal downloads (installers, windows service packs) in /sites/site/httpdocs/downloads. Does your set-up back up /proc as well? This seems to make doing a bare metal recovery harder, or should I not strive for such a solution? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ 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/