Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:

> BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.2
> 
> Backups of a single host are aborting after lots of errors like
> 
> sys/block/hdc/capability: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file
> removed Remote[1]: rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/block/hdc/capability":
> No data available (61)
> sys/block/hdc/dev: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed
> Remote[1]: rsync: read errors mapping "/sys/block/hdc/dev": No data
> available (61)
> [ skipped 4 lines ]
> sys/block/hdc/queue/iosched/back_seek_max: md4 doesn't match: will
> retry in phase 1; file removed
> Remote[1]: rsync: read errors mapping
> "/sys/block/hdc/queue/iosched/back_seek_max": No data available (61)
> sys/block/hdc/queue/iosched/back_seek_penalty: md4 doesn't match: will
> retry in phase
> 
> Always referencing files under /sys
> 
> My site-wide config.pl includes
> 
>     $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys'];
> 
> My error log for this host shows:
> 
> Sent exclude: /proc
> 
> Why didn't /sys get excluded, as per the configuration?   There is no
> overriding   $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} directive in the per-host
> config file.
> 
Try
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
  '*' => [
    '/proc',
    '/sys'
  ]
};
> I've got rsync 3.0.3 (protocol version 30) on both ends.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Aleksey
> 
> 

-- 
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