Try removing the leading "/" from each of the exclude paths. Also, you
should just exclude, eg, "OneDrive", not "OneDrive/*", and same for AppData.
Craig
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 5:09 PM Akibu Flash <akibufl...@outlook.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have an arch linux server backing up two Windows 10 clients via rsync.
> In the main config.pl file, I have excluded via $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
> several subdirectories and files (listed below). However, they don't seem
> to be being excluded by backuppc. I don't have any per-pc excludes as all
> of the subdirectories and files to be exlcuded are common on both
> machines. Is there something about the exclude syntax that I am
> misunderstanding? On each machine the share to be backed up
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} is "/mnt/c/Users/". Below I have listed the
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} entries. I have also listed a snippet of the
> error messages that I am getting. There are thousands of the error
> messages. Sometimes the error mesage is "Permission denied" and sometimes
> it is "Invalid argument". However, those directories and files that
> backuppc is trying to access are supposed to be being excluded to begin
> with. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,
>
> Akibu
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '*' => [
> '/OneDrive/*',
> '/desktop.ini',
> '/$RECYCLE.BIN',
> '/DumpStack.log',
> '/DumpStack.log.tmp',
> '/System Volume Information',
> '/AppData/*',
> '/Application Data',
> '/.bzvol',
> '/.ssh',
> '/.docker',
> '/.VirtualBox',
> '/.swt',
> '/NTUser*'
> ]
> };
>
>
>
> snippet of error messages below:
>
> rsync: send_files failed to open
> "/mnt/c/Users/rocky/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat.LOG2":
> Permission denied (13)
> rsync: send_files failed to open
> "/mnt/c/Users/rocky/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/WebCacheLock.dat":
> Permission denied (13)
> rsync: send_files failed to open
> "/mnt/c/Users/rocky/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/WebCache/V01.log":
> Permission denied (13)
> rsync: send_files failed to open
> "/mnt/c/Users/rocky/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/WebCache/V01tmp.log":
> Permission denied (13)
> rsync: send_files failed to open
> "/mnt/c/Users/rocky/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/WebCache/WebCacheV01.dat":
> Permission denied (13)
> rsync: send_files failed to open
> "/mnt/c/Users/rocky/OneDrive/Documents/Corsair_SSD_120G_Contents/Users/rocky_CORSAIR_SSD_120G/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Notifications/wpnidm/3191fe4c.jpg":
> Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: send_files failed to open
> "/mnt/c/Users/rocky/OneDrive/Documents/Corsair_SSD_120G_Contents/Users/rocky_CORSAIR_SSD_120G/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Notifications/wpnidm/31a625f5.jpg":
> Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: send_files failed to open
> "/mnt/c/Users/rocky/OneDrive/Documents/Corsair_SSD_120G_Contents/Users/rocky_CORSAIR_SSD_120G/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Notifications/wpnidm/32d1b55c.jpg":
> Invalid argument (22)
> rsync: send_files failed to open
> "/mnt/c/Users/rocky/OneDrive/Documents/Corsair_SSD_120G_Contents/Users/rocky_CORSAIR_SSD_120G/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Notifications/wpnidm/3efdab29.jpg":
> Invalid argument (22)
>
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