Re: [BackupPC-users] file exclude not working

So I believe I have figured it out. Seems rsync does relative filtering from the "root" directory that you are copying from. Here is the little blurb from the rsync man:

       o      if the pattern starts with a / then it is anchored to a particu-
              lar spot in the hierarchy of files, otherwise it is matched
              against the end of the pathname. This is similar to a leading ^
              in regular expressions.   Thus "/foo" would match a file named
              "foo" at either the "root of the transfer" (for a global rule)
              or in the merge-file's directory (for a per-directory rule). An
              unqualified "foo" would match any file or directory named "foo"
              anywhere in the tree because the algorithm is applied recur-
              sively from the top down;

so I removed the beginning of the directory I was trying to filter and left the pattern as rootfs/proc and it seems to be working.

Sri

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Sri Rao <sri AT cloudflare DOT com> wrote:

Hi,

I am new to backuppc. I have setup the server and it is backing things okay except in one instance. I am trying to backup a machine specifying multiple sharenames. For one of the shares I want to exclude some subdirs from being backed up. I am using the rsync method. For some reason it doesn't seem to be excluding that subdir though. Here is the log:

Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l backuppc xxxx /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /usr/var/lib/perceus/


Xfer PIDs are now 9350
Got remote protocol 30
Negotiated protocol version 28
Sent exclude: /usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/*/rootfs/proc/*
Remote[2]: file has vanished: "/usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/gravityos-cf-logger/rootfs/proc/2/exe"


Remote[2]: file has vanished: "/usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/gravityos-cf-logger/rootfs/proc/2/task/2/exe"
Remote[2]: file has vanished: "/usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/gravityos-cf-logger/rootfs/proc/3/exe"



I have set the sharenames and in BackupFilesExclude set the key to be the share /usr/var/lib/perceus and the value to 
/usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/*/rootfs/proc/* .  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help!



Sri

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint
What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone?
Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first

_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/