BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusions List

2009-10-12 15:24:53
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusions List
From: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
To: "Heath Yob" <heathy AT stanford DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:22:56 -0500
That would only apply to the module "Media," which is appropriate if and
only if "Media" is listed as the share to back up.  It looks like you put
"/Users/heathy/Music/" there instead, which ... doesn't match.


> This is what it is.  I added some other to see if it catches.
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>    'Media' => [
>      '*.mp3',
>      '*/*.mp3',
>      '/*.mp3'
>    ]
> };
>
> Heath
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Michael Stowe wrote:
>
>>
>> Probably.
>>
>> Does your exclude look like this?
>>
>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>>  '*' => [
>>    '*/*.mp3'
>>  ]
>> };
>>
>>
>>> Hmm.  I tried */*.mp3 and /*.mp3.  It's still picking up the test mp3
>>> files.  I make a new file ever incremental to see if it picks it up.
>>>
>>> I'm not seeing the filters when I run the incremental: /usr/bin/ssh
>>> -q
>>> -x -l root 171.67.220.30 /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-
>>> ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-
>>> size=2048 --recursive . /Users/heathy/Music/
>>>
>>>
>>> Should I see my filters in the command that gets run?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> heath
>>>
>>>> The backup part is working. The problem is that the exclusions
>>>> aren't
>>>> working. For example i'm trying to exclude mp3s. So I've added both
>>>> *.mp3 and .mp3 to the exclusion list and it's still backing up the
>>>> mp3s. I'm wondering if I'm missing something. The examples of the
>>>> exclusions only show directories and not files even though it states
>>>> it can exclude files.
>>>
>>> I think you have to add the path. Something like */*.mp3
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