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Guest	Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 8:14 am    Post subject: mp3 files excluded Hi Craig, Is it possible to either exclude mp3 files altogether or just to (at least) exclude them from the compression algorithim. Since they are large and already compressed, it would chew up a lot of cpu cycles for nothing. Preferably, I would like to exclude them from the backup. Then I would let my users know that they are not backed up and maybe give them a single 60GB IDE drive on one of the servers to store them, themselves. Thanks a lot for all your hard work. I am just finishing up setting up a backuppc for one of my customers. Leon
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Guest	Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 8:21 am    Post subject: mp3 files excluded Leon Letto wrote: Quote: Hi Craig, Is it possible to either exclude mp3 files altogether or just to (at least) exclude them from the compression algorithim. Since they are large and already compressed, it would chew up a lot of cpu cycles for nothing. Preferably, I would like to exclude them from the backup. Then I would let my users know that they are not backed up and maybe give them a single 60GB IDE drive on one of the servers to store them, themselves. Thanks a lot for all your hard work. I am just finishing up setting up a backuppc for one of my customers. Leon Try $conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '*.mp3'; ------------------------------------------------------- Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy Quote: Quote: Quote: http://thinkgeek.com/sf <<< _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users < at > lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
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Guest	Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2002 9:09 am    Post subject: mp3 files excluded Quote: Quote: Is it possible to either exclude mp3 files altogether or just to (at least) exclude them from the compression algorithim. Since they are large and already compressed, it would chew up a lot of cpu cycles for nothing. Preferably, I would like to exclude them from the backup. Then I would let my users know that they are not backed up and maybe give them a single 60GB IDE drive on one of the servers to store them, themselves. Thanks a lot for all your hard work. I am just finishing up setting up a backuppc for one of my customers. Leon Try $conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '*.mp3'; This will work with tar, but not smbclient. Unfortunately smbclient also needs the "r" option to -T to make wildcards in the exclude file list work. That's a one-character change to lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Smb.pm, but you can't do it from the configuration file. (Sometime I should move the entire smbclient command to the conf file, like it works with tar, so you can make tweaks like this.) Quote: Another question. Can I say $conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '~Temporary Internet Files\*.*'; Or something like that, to exclude a pathname. This is because there is always a different username in front of this folder name. eg. c:\Documents and Settings\leon\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files . If you added the "r" option to smbclient's -T, this should work: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '*/Temporary Internet Files/*', '*.MP3', '*.mp3' ]; I would start to question the value of this kind of tweaking. Just require all your users to listen to the same kind of music . There is a warning in the smbclient man page that says wildcards done via regex can be slow. If smbclient is compiled without regex support (I'm not sure what the default is) then "*" and "?" are still meant to work ok. Also, smbclient can't exclude files from a specific list (ie: you can't include and exclude at the same time). Tar can. Perhaps I should add "-r" as the default to lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Smb.pm? Craig ------------------------------------------------------- Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy Quote: Quote: Quote: http://thinkgeek.com/sf <<< _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users < at > lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
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