Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 05:36, Steve Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aahh!!! Thanks Holger. I had not understood the use of the hash key. I thought it was just a kind of group name for some excludes. Now everything is working as expected. Steve Hi, it is not greatly explained in doc. So I'll just set * for all my exclude keys. Directly in pl files as web interface does not allow that :( Cheers Gabriel - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.
Gabriel Landais wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 05:36, Steve Blackwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aahh!!! Thanks Holger. I had not understood the use of the hash key. I thought it was just a kind of group name for some excludes. Now everything is working as expected. Steve Hi, it is not greatly explained in doc. So I'll just set * for all my exclude keys. Directly in pl files as web interface does not allow that :( Cheers Gabriel The web interface didn't give me any problems creating a * key. What happened when you tried it? -- Bowie - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ 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] Problems excluding files.
The documentation for $Conf{TarClientCmd} says
...
Also, you will probably want to add ``/proc'' to
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude}.
The following variables are substituted at run-time:
...
$fileListspecific files to backup or exclude
...
I took this to mean that $fileList takes care of excluding the files in
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude}.
I have the following in my host.pl file:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'system' = [
'/proc',
'/sys',
'/tmp'
],
'backup' = [
'/media'
]
};
but the log show that it is still trying to backup /sys and /proc.
Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.6.z, modified 2008-08-04
01:08:44 (Extracting only Errors)
Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals
--newer=2008-07-29 17:06:39 . incr backup started back to 2008-07-29
17:06:39 (backup #2) for directory / Xfer PIDs are now 25863,25862
[ skipped 36677 lines ]
/bin/tar: ./sys/devices/platform/uevent: File shrank by 4096 bytes;
padding with zeros
Id there something wrong with my $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} or do I need
to add --exclude something to TarIncrArgs?
Thanks,
Steve
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.
Hi,
Steve Blackwell wrote on 2008-08-04 18:31:38 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Problems
excluding files.]:
[...]
I have the following in my host.pl file:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'system' = [
'/proc',
'/sys',
'/tmp'
],
'backup' = [
'/media'
]
};
but the log show that it is still trying to backup /sys and /proc.
Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.6.z, modified 2008-08-04
01:08:44 (Extracting only Errors)
Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals
--newer=2008-07-29 17:06:39 . incr backup started back to 2008-07-29
17:06:39 (backup #2) for directory / Xfer PIDs are now 25863,25862
[...]
Id there something wrong with my $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
yes.
or do I need to add --exclude something to TarIncrArgs?
No.
You need to use the share name as hash key. Since you're using XferMethod
tar, chances are your share is /, so you'd have
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/' = [
'/proc',
'/sys',
'/tmp'
],
'/whatever/share/you/mean/by/backup' = [
'/media'
]
};
You *can* use '*' as hash key if you want the excludes to apply to every share
not explicitly given an exclude list, but it seems better practise (and less
error prone) to explicitly list excludes by share like you did.
Regards,
Holger
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.
Hi,
Steve Blackwell wrote on 2008-08-04 18:31:38 -0400 [[BackupPC-users]
Problems excluding files.]:
[...]
Id there something wrong with my $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
yes.
or do I need to add --exclude something to TarIncrArgs?
No.
You need to use the share name as hash key. Since you're using
XferMethod tar, chances are your share is /, so you'd have
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/' = [
'/proc',
'/sys',
'/tmp'
],
'/whatever/share/you/mean/by/backup' = [
'/media'
]
};
You *can* use '*' as hash key if you want the excludes to apply to
every share not explicitly given an exclude list, but it seems better
practise (and less error prone) to explicitly list excludes by share
like you did.
Regards,
Holger
Aahh!!! Thanks Holger.
I had not understood the use of the hash key. I thought it was just a
kind of group name for some excludes.
Now everything is working as expected.
Steve
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