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Hi,

Mark Maciolek wrote on 2011-10-27 07:54:26 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync]:
On 10/26/2011 8:49 PM, 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.
[...]
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'/etc',
'/boot',
'/home',
'/var/mail',
'/var/www',
'/sound+vision'
];

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

Steve,

You need to change the key /home should be *

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

that is plain wrong. This would, in effect, exclude

/etc/home/steve/Packages
/boot/home/steve/Packages
/home/home/steve/Packages
/var/mail/home/steve/Packages
/var/www/home/steve/Packages
/sound+vision/home/steve/Packages

which does not get you much further than the original exclusion of

/home/home/steve/Packages

Steve M. Robbins wrote on 2011-10-27 22:11:34 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync]:
[...]
Well, experimentation indicates that I need to strip off
the prefix;

Right. Documentation also indicates that (rsync(1), probably also mentioned in
the BackupPC docs - if you think about the examples in config.pl, they at
least hint at this).

i.e. change [...] to

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

Actually, it's

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

presuming you *only* want to exclude /home/steve/Packages and not
/home/steve/**/Packages (where "**" matches any number of intermediate
directories).

Regards,
Holger

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Why bother with:

$Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {>  '/home' => [>        '/steve/Packages'>  ]> };
Why not just:

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

i..e, prefix is not required with rsync (only smb).


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Holger Parplies <wbppc < at > parplies.de> wrote:
Hi,

Mark Maciolek wrote on 2011-10-27 07:54:26 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync]:
On 10/26/2011 8:49 PM, 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.
[...]
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
   '/etc',
   '/boot',
   '/home',
   '/var/mail',
   '/var/www',
   '/sound+vision'
];

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

Steve,

You need to change the key /home should be *

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

that is plain wrong. This would, in effect, exclude

       /etc/home/steve/Packages
       /boot/home/steve/Packages
       /home/home/steve/Packages
       /var/mail/home/steve/Packages
       /var/www/home/steve/Packages
       /sound+vision/home/steve/Packages

which does not get you much further than the original exclusion of

       /home/home/steve/Packages

Steve M. Robbins wrote on 2011-10-27 22:11:34 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync]:
[...]
Well, experimentation indicates that I need to strip off
the prefix;

Right. Documentation also indicates that (rsync(1), probably also mentioned in
the BackupPC docs - if you think about the examples in config.pl, they at
least hint at this).

i.e. change [...] to

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

Actually, it's

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

presuming you *only* want to exclude /home/steve/Packages and not
/home/steve/**/Packages (where "**" matches any number of intermediate
directories).

Regards,
Holger

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contains a definitive record of customers, application performance,
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:08:23AM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote:

Actually, it's

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

presuming you *only* want to exclude /home/steve/Packages and not [...]

Thanks -- that is indeed what I wanted.

-Steve

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Hi,

Alex Machina wrote on 2011-11-17 20:51:46 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync]:
Why bother with:

$Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {>  '/home' => [>        '/steve/Packages'>  ]> };
Why not just:

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

because the former works while the latter doesn't .

I'm not sure whether you are suggesting a change to BackupPC to strip out
share names from in-/excludes. If you are, I'm not sure I agree that that
would even be a good idea. In any case, it would be complicated to implement
and require exact knowledge of in-/exclude syntax for the XferMethod within
BackupPC.

i..e, prefix is not required with rsync (only smb).

You're probably trying to say that the original poster should be using
RsyncShareName = '/' instead of whatever he is currently using. I don't really
feel like getting into religious wars over configuration practices, so I'll
just hint at the consequences of *changing* the backup layout (like
retransferring all data, not to mention the topic of restoring data from
before the change). My personal recommendation is: use whatever you feel
comfortable with and what works for you.

Regards,
Holger

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contains a definitive record of customers, application performance,
security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this
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