Thank you, Craig. Since I migrated my per-host configs over, I already had the exclusions in place. Thank you for pointing out the one-file-system default setting.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 12:12 AM Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > The default rsync arguments in v4 include --one-file-system, which could > be why it's not descending into those directories (ie, are the missing > directories different file systems?). > > If so, you can either remove --one-file-system (in which case you'll need > to explicitly exclude things like /proc), or add the list of mount points > in the list of things to backup. > > Craig > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 7:26 PM Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've made quite a bit of headway on my issues deploying a BackupPC 4 >> server. I was having issues with the $Conf{RsyncClientPath} because the >> client path on FreeBSD is /usr/local/bin/rsync, whereas on Linux, the path >> os /usr/bin/rsync, and specifying it in the per-host config files did not >> override the one in config.pl. So I commented it out of config.pl, and >> the per-host files seem to work correctly. So is that a change from 3 to 4 >> that the config.pl overrides the per-host config files? >> >> Now having figured that piece of it out, I have a couple of other issues >> that I would like to as about. >> >> First, I am noticing that, while all of these are Unix and Linux boxes, >> with their heirarchical filesystems layout, I am seeing directories not >> being backed up, for instance, /home and /var/log that I have noticed so >> far. I drill down in the dieplay and see things like >> >> The directory / >> <http://romaine/bpc/backuppc.pl?action=browse&host=defiant&num=0&share=/&dir=/> >> usr >> <http://romaine/bpc/backuppc.pl?action=browse&host=defiant&num=0&share=/&dir=/usr> >> /home >> <http://romaine/bpc/backuppc.pl?action=browse&host=defiant&num=0&share=/&dir=/usr/home> >> is empty >> >> For comparison, my v3 installation for my workstation (FBSD) had 647808 >> files (81908.8 MiB) for the last full backup, while the v4 install has >> 577488 files (74564.2 MiB). My wife's desktop (Linux) has 261948 files >> (19657.6 MiB) in v3, and 17538 files (1146.9 MiB), so a ton of files seem >> to be missing. >> >> The other thing is that I have a device I want to turn off backups on, so >> I set $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 1; but it is still trying to access the >> device though it is offline. >> >> Any ideas on these issues? >> Thanks, >> --b >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki >> Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >> > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >
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