Thank you Mr. Hughes for a more complete explanation.
Not sure which change is considered the better option.One of my BackupPC machines I have added the /home under the "/" in RsyncShareName.
On the second one I have removed the "default flag --one-file-system".At this moment there is a backup still running for share "/home" on the first machine and also a backup running on the second machine.
These extended run times indicates to me that both are backing up my /home (which apparently I was never backing up . . glad I caught this one before disaster struck.)
Again, thanks. On 9/30/2019 8:02 AM, Mike Hughes wrote:
This behavior has not changed over the years. You've found that the /home folder exists on a separate partition than /. What is the value of RsyncShareName? If it's just the default of "/", then that's the only partition which will be examined by rsync and no other partitions will be considered. This is because of the default flag --one-file- system. Again, it's up to you if you want to target the /home partition directly (by adding it to the RsyncShareName list), or capture all filesystems by excluding that default rsync flag. The question about which overrides what in the include/exclude lists doesn't come into play unless you're actually scanning the /home partit ion. See the docs for specifics regarding that once you get your partition to scan. Hope this helps! On Mon, 2019-09-30 at 06:44 -0500, Bob Wooden wrote:I have been using BackupPC since early v3.0 days. Switched to v4 a few years ago. I have always "exclude" directories to NOT backup. It has been my understanding that BackupPC users were to either "include" or "exclude" NOT both? The "/" is on /dev/md1 and "/home" is on /dev/md2. Both on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04LTS) mdadm arrays. Am I wrong? Doesn't "include" override any "exclude" settings? On 9/29/19 9:02 AM, Mike Hughes wrote:No, that is the default setting in BPC. So if your /home is on a separate partition you either need to remove that setting, or add the /home partition as a backup Target in addition to /. Whichever is your best option is up to you. On Sep 29, 2019 06:27, Bob Wooden <b...@donelsontrophy.com> wrote: Thanks, Michael. Sorry, not clear if I am to run "rsync --one-file-system" as root from command line? The "--one-file-system" is listed in 'RsyncArgs'? On 9/28/19 10:50 AM, Michael Stowe wrote:rsync --one-file-system_______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/_______________________________________________ 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/
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