Re: [BackupPC-users] How to find files in the pool?

2020-04-23 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
The attrib file contains the meta data (mtime, permissions etc) for all the files in that directory, including the md5 digest of the contents of each file. You can use BackupPC_attribPrint to print the contents of the attrib file, which will show the meta data for each file. Craig On Mon, Apr

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting rsync excludes right...

2020-04-23 Thread Greg Harris
Then you need both. $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' => [ '*/Trash’, //Visible subdirectories ‘*/.Trash’, //Need to add to get rid of hidden subdirectory occurrences '/.cache', '/.Trash*’ //Hidden subdirectory occurrence ] }; Thanks, Greg Harris On Apr 23, 2020, at 11:46

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting rsync excludes right...

2020-04-23 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:32 AM Greg Harris wrote: > There’s no dot on the first one. > That's another form I found when browsing through a backup. Thanks, Richard ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting rsync excludes right...

2020-04-23 Thread Greg Harris
There’s no dot on the first one. Thanks, Greg Harris On Apr 23, 2020, at 11:27 AM, Richard Shaw mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com>> wrote: I tried to upgrade my CentOS 7 box to CentOS 8 (through reinstall and preserving of /etc) but it went sideways and I lost everything so I had to setup

[BackupPC-users] Getting rsync excludes right...

2020-04-23 Thread Richard Shaw
I tried to upgrade my CentOS 7 box to CentOS 8 (through reinstall and preserving of /etc) but it went sideways and I lost everything so I had to setup BackupPC from scratch. Getting the rsync excludes right has always been a problem for me. I'm not volunteering to start it but (I've got WAY too

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to find files in the pool?

2020-04-23 Thread Robert Sommerville via BackupPC-users
You can use the “locate ‘file name’” command but that will return all matches. It does report the full path so you can grep for known path strings to narrow the results. If command updatedb is not in the root Cron you’ll have to execute that as root first. If it is the very first time it will

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using a jump host to backup via rsync over SSH

2020-04-23 Thread Pim Rupert
Hi Falko, >> Apparently a shell is required to use a jump host from the ssh command in >> this situation? > > There's an analysis about apparently same problem: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/457692/does-ssh-proxyjump-require-local-shell-access > > They mention, that setting the