Hi Todd,
I backup Macs with /Users as the RsyncShareName. My excludes are mostly for
transient things like logs and caches:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/Users' => [
'.DS_Store',
'.Trash',
'.bash*',
'.dropbox*',
'.sync*',
'_sophos',
'Album Artwork',
'Cache*',
'CrashReporter',
'EyeTV Archive',
'Google/Chrome',
'GoogleSoftwareUpdate',
'Logs',
'MobileSync',
'Podcasts',
'PubSub',
'Resilio Sync',
'Saved Application State*',
'Shared/adi',
'SyncServices',
'VirtualBox*'
]
};
Are you trying to backup the entire system, including OS and apps? My goal
is only to backup user data in BackupPC. I let Time Machine take care of
the bare metal backup.
Robert Trevellyan
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 12:25 PM Todd Wade <waveri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can't find anything on the mailing list so I'm guessing its unlikely but
> -
>
> Any chance someone has assembled a solid BackupFilesExclude for osx
> Catalina?
>
> The link here has no backuppc content any more:
>
> https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/How-to-make-Backup-using-Rsync-server-on-Mac-OS
>
>
> Its looking like I backed up about 15gb of /private that I know I don't
> need backed up. Its also looking like I should exclude
> /System/Volumes/Data based on what I'm seeing in the Xfer Error logs.
>
> All in all it looks like I backed up about 25gb that I know I don't need
> backed up, and the disk usage seems to be growing, probably backing up
> stuff I'll never need.
>
> ---- related question:
>
> any advice on how to delete a backup for a host so I can start over? I'd
> like to reclaim this wasted disk space. Theres nothing on the wiki(?)
> and the only things google can find are very old stuff that I'm assuming
> applies to backuppc v3.
>
> ----
>
> If I have to figure it out myself I'll report back but just hoping
> someone else has been down this path and is willing to share experience.
>
> Love BackupPC what amazing software! I've been using it about 6 months
> and its like a dream. I almost started down the Bacula path and I'm so
> glad I went with BackupPC instead.
>
>
>
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