Re: [BackupPC-users] botched move of cpool directory

2007-05-11 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet)
Matthew Washburn wrote: I have a situation here. I installed and upgraded BackupPC 7 and 3 months ago, repectively, and have since rarely touched the thing. I know when I did the upgrade I did something with the pool directories. If my memory serves me correctly I believe I moved them

[BackupPC-users] Backing up excluded directories

2007-05-11 Thread Miles Thompson
I have figured out most of BackupPC, but on some machine, directories excluded in their configuration files are still being backed up. From target machine's configuration file: $Conf{SmbShareName} = 'sarah'; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/MYMUSI~1','/WINDOWS','PROGRA~1']; Two sections from the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up excluded directories

2007-05-11 Thread Miles Thompson
James, Thank you for the suggestion, but it did not work. The script never enters Program Files or Windows, but has no such hesitation about My Music. I have had another thought - could it be continuing to visit this directory because it was included in the original full backup? Regards - Miles

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up excluded directories

2007-05-11 Thread Travis Fraser
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 15:22 -0300, Miles Thompson wrote: James, Thank you for the suggestion, but it did not work. The script never enters Program Files or Windows, but has no such hesitation about My Music. I have had another thought - could it be continuing to visit this directory

[BackupPC-users] rsync or tar?

2007-05-11 Thread M. Sabath
Hello to all, I am new in this List. We have a small office with 5 Mac OSX (10.4) and 3 PCs (XP). We decided to back up with Backuppc. The last few hours I searche the mailinglist and read a lot. But I am still not sure if: * it is better to use rsync or tar because of the resource forks? * I