Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-19 Thread Ian Levesque
On May 12, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Ian Levesque wrote: I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this directory, so I've added a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Ian Levesque wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Ian Levesque wrote: I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this directory,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-15 Thread Matthias Meyer
Tim Cole wrote: I have a similar question.nbsp; I'm using rsync for transfer and need to exclude a few windows directories such as system volume.nbsp; I added the path to the directory as rsync sees it on the other end /mnt/windows/system volume information but it doesn't get excluded.nbsp;

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Matthias Meyer wrote on 2009-05-15 08:48:00 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync]: Tim Cole wrote: First: please do not use html messages Yep. I have a similar question.nbsp; I'm using rsync for transfer and need to exclude a few windows directories

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-15 Thread Tim Cole
Sorry for the html - I forget thunderbird is set to do that by default. I am not using cygwin, so the windows shares are mounted via cifs on an embedded linux appliance at the remote end. The path to the mounted shares on the remote end is /mnt/lpl/ I have actually been careful to match

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Tim Cole wrote on 2009-05-15 11:46:52 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync]: [...] Here's a snip from the log and my config file so you can see what I'm talking about: ah, that pretty much clears up everything. Which is not to say there may not be other

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-15 Thread Matthias Meyer
Tim Cole wrote: Sorry for the html - I forget thunderbird is set to do that by default. I am not using cygwin, so the windows shares are mounted via cifs on an embedded linux appliance at the remote end. The path to the mounted shares on the remote end is /mnt/lpl/ I have actually been

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-15 Thread Tim Cole
Matthias Meyer wrote: Tim Cole wrote: Sorry for the html - I forget thunderbird is set to do that by default. I am not using cygwin, so the windows shares are mounted via cifs on an embedded linux appliance at the remote end. The path to the mounted shares on the remote end is

[BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-12 Thread Ian Levesque
Hello, I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this directory, so I've added a BackupFilesExclude entry (i.e., /home/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

2009-05-12 Thread Tim Cole
Ian, I have a similar question. I'm using rsync for transfer and need to exclude a few windows directories such as system volume. I added the path to the directory as rsync sees it on the other end "/mnt/windows/system volume information" but it doesn't get excluded. I see a permission denied