Hello list,

I currently back up some 30 servers and workstations, Linux, Macs and 
Windows clients using BackupPC and is so far very happy with it.
In general, I try to, as far as possible, to use the global exclusion 
variables to simplify the managing of the clients. Some clients require 
special variables to be set, like Windows Vista clients, due to the new 
naming conventions in Vista. The problem is, when I enter one single 
parameter to a client the variables isn't global anymore, but specific 
to that partiular client. I.e. on Vista clients I exclude /Documents and 
Settings and /Users/*/My* since  they are just symlinks to other 
directories, unnecessarily doubling the amount of data being backed up. 
I can't use those variables on Win XP clients of course.

BTW, I use rsync for all clients, wether it's Linux, Windows og OSX.

Is it a way to counter this? I.e. have the global variables staying 
global even though some settings are client specific?

Please advice and thanks,

Oblivian

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