Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

On 10/26/2011 8:49 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.
> Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup.
> I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result.  What's
> the magic?
>
>
> #
> # Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
> #
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
>
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
>    '/etc',
>    '/boot',
>    '/home',
>    '/var/mail',
>    '/var/www',
>    '/sound+vision'
> ];
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>    '/home' =>  [
>      '/home/steve/Packages'
>    ]
> };
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve
>
>
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Steve,

You need to change the key /home should be *

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
   '*' => ['
     '/home/steve/Packages
   ]
};


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