Glassfox wrote:

> I tried several times to backup my server host, but backuppc seemed  
> to ignore the exclude files settings. I want to exclude this folders  
> from backup with their all subfolders: /proc, /sys, /media and /var/ 
> lib/backuppc. This is my current config file content:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>  '/media/*' => [
>    '',
>    ''
>  ],
>  '/sys/*' => [
>    ''
>  ],
>  '/var/lib/backuppc/*' => [
>    ''
>  ],
>  '/proc/*' => [
>    ''
>  ]
> };
>
> I'm using Ubuntu and rsync.
> Is there any error?

Yes, your configuration is incorrect. See 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupfilesexclude_
 
  for the documentation. The keys need to correspond to share names,  
but the keys in your example correspond to directories *within* a  
share. This doesn't work.

You could solve this by using '/' (or '*', which sets excludes for all  
shares don't have any specific excludes set) as the share name and  
specifying a list of directories not to backup as the value:

----
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
   '*' => [
     '/media/*',
     '/proc/*',
     '/sys/*',
     '/var/lib/backuppc/*'
   ]
};
----

I guess you could even use the simple list form in this case as you're  
not working with multiple shares:

----
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/media/*', '/proc/*', '/sys/*', '/var/ 
lib/backuppc/*' };
----

Nils Breunese.

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