Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 08/26 12:57 , Osburn, Michael wrote:
>> I am trying to backup my backuppc server while excluding the backups
>> directory. No matter what I put under excludes in the config, I still
>> end up with the cpool and pc directories in my backups.
> 
> You misunderstand the exclude syntax. Here's an example for a (SMB) share
> named 'c$':
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>        'c$' => [
>         '/RECYCLER', 
>         '/winnt/tmp', 
>         '/temp', 
>         '/WUTemp', 
>         '/WINDOWS', 
>         '/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/', 
>         '/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/history/', 
>         '/Documents and Settings/*/Cookies/', 
>         '/Documents and Settings/*/Favorites/', 
>         '/Documents and Settings/*/IETldCache/', 
>         '/Documents and Settings/*/IECompatCache/', 
>         '/Documents and Settings/*/NetHood/', 
>         '/Documents and Settings/*/PrivacIE/', 
>         '/Documents and Settings/*/PrintHood/', 
>         '/pagefile.sys', 
>         '/hiberfil.sys',
>         ]
>    };
>  
hmm ... I'm having some problems with smb-tar excludes, too (my first 
smb client because of never ending VISTA 64-bit related issues with 
DeltaCopy and/or cygwin-rsyncd) and I read on:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Smb_exclude


>    1.  Backslashes (\) seem to be the only effective way to get smbclient to 
> correctly exclude files.
>    2. Subfolders need to be followed by a \* to be correctly excluded.
>    3. Files off of the root of the share need to be prepended by an extra 
> backslash to be correctly excluded.
>    4. Folders off of the root of the share need to be prepended by an extra 
> backslash to be correctly excluded. 


Maybe I should try it your way then ... ;-)

Bernhard




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