Why bother with:
> $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {> '/home' => [> '/steve/Packages'> ]>
> };
Why not just:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/home/steve/Packages']
i..e, prefix is not required with rsync (only smb).
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> wrote:
> 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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