On 2016-03-29 19:57, Michael Stowe wrote: > On 2016-03-29 10:17, Benjamin Redling wrote: >> [...] /tmp subdirectories and absolute >> paths (/anonuser... see below) are filling up the discs. >> XferMethod is rsyncd, shouldn't '*/tmp' avoid this?
> No, '*/tmp' will avoid backing up any files named "tmp" or any empty > subdirectories named "tmp" as long as they are NOT in the root of the > share -- but it will not exclude any files IN directories named "tmp", > which, from your description, is probably what you want. Ok, I reread the section "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES" of the rsync man page in hope to grasp the patterns. There it says: " a trailing "dir_name/***" will match both the directory (as if "dir_name/" had been specified) and everything in the directory (as if "dir_name/**" had been specified). This behavior was added in version 2.6.7. " So, to my understanding tmp/*** (and all the other dirs accordingly) should be the correct pattern. [...] > Also note that exclude paths are relative, so if you want to match /tmp > in the root of the share, the proper exclude to use is simply 'tmp'. [...] > If you want to exclude anything in a subdirectory named tmp, then 'tmp/' > should do the trick. I need the later case, tmp in the home dirs. Thanks for pointing to the importance of the trailing slash! Maybe I changed more that I am willing to admit to myself and even worse: this wasn't part of config. management /version control -- really bad. Regards, Benjamin -- FSU Jena | JULIELab.de/Staff/Benjamin+Redling.html vox: +49 3641 9 44323 | fax: +49 3641 9 44321 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ 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/
