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Hi,

I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.
Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup.
I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result. What's
the magic?


#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';

$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'/etc',
'/boot',
'/home',
'/var/mail',
'/var/www',
'/sound+vision'
];

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home' => [
'/home/steve/Packages'
]
};


Thanks,
-Steve

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On 10/26/2011 8:49 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
Hi,

I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.
Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup.
I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result. What's
the magic?


#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';

$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'/etc',
'/boot',
'/home',
'/var/mail',
'/var/www',
'/sound+vision'
];

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home' => [
'/home/steve/Packages'
]
};


Thanks,
-Steve


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Steve,

You need to change the key /home should be *

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => ['
'/home/steve/Packages
]
};


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On 10/26 07:49 , Steve M. Robbins wrote:
I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.

This isn't really a proper answer to your question; but have you considered
using tar for your backup of localhost? I've found that tar is faster for
some types of transfers (where bandwidth isn't at a premium). I haven't
tested this extensively.

Here's what I use for a localhost.pl:
#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';

# let it back itself up anytime it wants to.
$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [];

$Conf{TarShareName} = ['/'];

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc',
'/var/lib/vmware', '/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/mnt', '/media'];

$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c -v -f
- -C $shareName --totals';

# remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
# needed for remote backups but may break local ones
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';

# turning off compression on these files, so they can be recovered without
# backuppc.
# wouldn't make sense to need your backup server,
# in order to recover your backup server, now would it?
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;



Back to the original point of your question; your configuration does look
sane, tho I don't do any backups quite that way so I don't have direct
experience with multiple rsync shares on the same host. (I use ssh keys
customized to restrict the backups to particular trees of files, so I need a
new backup profile for each tree on a remote host).

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On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:49:48PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.
Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup.
I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result. What's
the magic?

Well, experimentation indicates that I need to strip off
the prefix; i.e. change from

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home' => [
'/home/steve/Packages'
]
};

to

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home' => [
'steve/Packages'
]
};


Regards,
-Steve

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