Hi,
Mark Maciolek wrote on 2011-10-27 07:54:26 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Exclusion not working with rsync]:
> On 10/26/2011 8:49 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.
> > Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup.
> > [...]
> > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
> > '/etc',
> > '/boot',
> > '/home',
> > '/var/mail',
> > '/var/www',
> > '/sound+vision'
> > ];
> >
> > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> > '/home' => [
> > '/home/steve/Packages'
> > ]
> > };
> > [...]
>
> Steve,
>
> You need to change the key /home should be *
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '*' => ['
> '/home/steve/Packages
> ]
> };
that is plain wrong. This would, in effect, exclude
/etc/home/steve/Packages
/boot/home/steve/Packages
/home/home/steve/Packages
/var/mail/home/steve/Packages
/var/www/home/steve/Packages
/sound+vision/home/steve/Packages
which does not get you much further than the original exclusion of
/home/home/steve/Packages
Steve M. Robbins wrote on 2011-10-27 22:11:34 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
Exclusion not working with rsync]:
> [...]
> Well, experimentation indicates that I need to strip off
> the prefix;
Right. Documentation also indicates that (rsync(1), probably also mentioned in
the BackupPC docs - if you think about the examples in config.pl, they at
least hint at this).
> i.e. change [...] to
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '/home' => [
> 'steve/Packages'
> ]
> };
Actually, it's
$Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home' => [
'/steve/Packages'
]
};
presuming you *only* want to exclude /home/steve/Packages and not
/home/steve/**/Packages (where "**" matches any number of intermediate
directories).
Regards,
Holger
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