Hi Bowie

Thanks for clearing that up. So does that mean I should also amend these
other excludes by putting a forward slash in front?

'etc/fstab', ==> '/etc/fstab',

'var/cache/apt/archives/*', ==> '/var/cache/apt/archives/*',

Thanks

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:Bowie_Bailey AT BUC DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, 10 February 2010 12:40 AM
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude not working as expected

Mark Wass wrote:
>
> Hi Guys
>
> I have a config file that looks likes this:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>
> '/' => [
>
> 'dev',
>
> 'proc',
>
> 'sys',
>
> 'tmp',
>
> 'var/lib/mysql',
>
> 'etc/fstab',
>
> 'var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.*',
>
> 'var/log/apache2/*',
>
> 'shares',
>
> 'var/lib/cvs',
>
> 'var/lib/cvs-old',
>
> 'var/cache/apt/archives/*',
>
> 'var/log/samba/*',
>
> 'var/log/installer/*',
>
> 'var/log/apt/*',
>
> 'var/log/samba/*',
>
> 'HDD2'
>
> ]
>
> };
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {};
>
> $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = '192.168.1.3';
>
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
>
> '/'
>
> ];
>
> I've got an exclude in there for "proc", the problem I'm getting is
> that the "proc" is also getting excluded from "/opt/webmin/proc" I
> only want the proc directly on the root "/" share to be excluded. How
> can I make sure the no other "proc" folders are excluded?
>

You are telling it that you want all files/directories called 'proc' to
be excluded. If you only want to exclude '/proc', then list it that way.
You probably want to do the same thing with most of the rest of your
list unless you are also wanting to exclude all 'tmp' directories, etc.

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/' => [
'/dev',
'/proc',
'/sys',
'/tmp',
...
'HDD2'
]
};

--
Bowie

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