Just following up on this because I got a very useful reply from Holger which explained that a variable can be used to hold a list of excludes, but noted that doing so will break the ability to use the GUI. If the GUI is used to edit a host's config after manually setting a variable all changes will be overwritten.
>From Holger: You simply create a variable in the host (or even global) config file ... my @common_excludes = ('*access_log*', '.apdisk', '.cache'); and then reference that multiple times: $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = { '/home' => [ @common_excludes ], '/var' => [ @common_excludes, '/lib/mysql' ], '/usr' => [ @common_excludes ], '/boot' => [ @common_excludes ], '/data' => [ @common_excludes ], }; or $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = { '/var' => [ @common_excludes, '/lib/mysql' ], '/example' => [ ], # no excludes here '*' => [ @common_excludes ], }; Thanks Holger for your help! I've implemented it and it saves me much messiness in my config files. 8) +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by itism...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
