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I want to exclude the directory which contains vmware virtual machines.
I have tried to exclude it on my localhost computer and on my windows
laptop. But both of them are still trying to backup the directory I
want to exclude.

Have I used the wrong formatting?

I have searched the archives, but I still couldn't figure out what is wrong.

All help appreciated. Thanks.

Krsnendu dasa

The location on the local host is
/home/krsnendu/Virtual Machines

Using the web interface I typed exactly the same as above for the
variable: BackupFilesExclude

In the config file it looks like this:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home/krsnendu/Virtual Machines' => [
''
]
};

For the windows machine:
The share name is Educator which maps to
c:\Documents and Settings\Educator

Using the web interface for BackupFilesExclude I typed:

/My Documents/My Virtual Machines/*

In the config file it looks like this:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/My Documents/My Virtual Machines/*' => [
''
]
};

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Have you tried a backslash escape character in front of the space in 'Virtual Machines'? I know single quote might take care of this, but just a guess.

Also, adding a /* ?

Stabbing in the dark here.

-Nathan


In the config file it looks like this:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home/krsnendu/Virtual Machines' => [
''
]
};

Krsnendu writes:

I want to exclude the directory which contains vmware virtual machines.
I have tried to exclude it on my localhost computer and on my windows
laptop. But both of them are still trying to backup the directory I
want to exclude.

Have I used the wrong formatting?

I have searched the archives, but I still couldn't figure out what is wrong.

All help appreciated. Thanks.

Krsnendu dasa

The location on the local host is
/home/krsnendu/Virtual Machines

Using the web interface I typed exactly the same as above for the
variable: BackupFilesExclude

In the config file it looks like this:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/home/krsnendu/Virtual Machines' => [
''
]
};

This isn't right. The key should be the share name (eg: '/'),
and the value is the path you want to exclude. It's not that
obvious in the CGI interface.

So it should look like this:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/' => ['/home/krsnendu/Virtual Machines'],
};

Craig

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