Here is the entry in config.pl after adding it to the web interface. Is
this correct?
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/sys',
'/proc',
'/dev',
'/tmp',
'/server',
'/mnt',
'*.tmp',
'.deleted',
'.deleted/'
]
};
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Kameleon <kameleo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry I didn't mention the xfer method. All servers use rsync over ssh. I
> plan to try the above this weekend with the full runs.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Michael Stowe wrote on 2013-05-31 08:21:03 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
>> Exclude directories]:
>> > > On each of our samba servers inside of each share is a .deleted folder
>> > > that
>> > > all of the files that a user deletes from the share within windows
>> goes to
>> > > instead of actually being deleted immediately. I do not want to back
>> these
>> > > up but they are not all in the same path on all the servers. What is
>> the
>> > > correct syntax to exclude these from the backups? Should */.deleted
>> work?
>> > > Or will I need to explicitly declare all the paths?
>> >
>> > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>> > '*' => [
>> > '*/.deleted'
>> > '*/.deleted/*'
>> > ]
>> > };
>>
>> strictly, this depends on the XferMethod (which the OP did not mention),
>> but
>> the above looks as though it should mostly work. For rsync(d), the '*/'
>> in the
>> patterns is meaningless except for preventing '.deleted' at the top level
>> within the share to match. Probably the same holds for tar, but I didn't
>> check. As for smb, there always seems to be confusion whether in-/excludes
>> need to contain slashes or backslashes. My memory seems to say
>> "backslashes",
>> but I haven't ever used smb XferMethod myself.
>>
>> In any case, it should be possible to use wildcards and *not* list all
>> paths.
>> Again, the syntax of in-/excludes depends on the XferMethod used.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Holger
>>
>>
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