> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wbppc AT parplies DOT de]
> Sent: den 7 april 2017 18:49
> To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <backuppc-
> users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding folders from backup
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Bowie Bailey wrote on 2017-04-07 09:17:29 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
> Excluding folders from backup]:
> > On 4/7/2017 2:55 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
> > >> From: Markus Koeberl [mailto:markus.koeberl AT tugraz DOT at]
> > >> On Friday 07 April 2017 07:29:30 Sorin Srbu wrote:
> > >>> [...]
> > >>> The field BackupFilesOnly is empty, as this would override anything
in
> > >>> BackupFilesExclude as per the documentation.
> 
> that is not true for rsync, only for smb (and possibly tar, though I don't
> think so). With rsync, you *can* use both BackupFilesOnly and
> BackupFilesExclude in combination.
> 
> > >> [...]
> > >> It should look like this in your config file:
> > >> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
> > >>    '/home/sorin'
> > >> ];
> > >> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> > >>    '/home/sorin' => [
> > >>      '/Videos',
> > >>      '/ownCloud'
> > >>    ]
> > >> };
> > > [...]
> > > Doh! Now I get it! Thank you!
> > > You first have to add a "root" and then the folders you want excluded.
> > > Seeing it now, it's rather obvious.
> 
> It doesn't seem to be that intuitive ... this mistake has been made a lot.
> Please note that, as Markus implied, the excludes need to be relative to
the
> share, i.e. "/Videos" and "/ownCloud" - whether you use the share name or
"*"
> as the key. An exclude of "/home/sorin/Videos" would match a
file/directory
> "/home/sorin/home/sorin/Videos" (which you likely don't have, so the
exclude
> would not have any effect).
> 
> > AND the "root" must either match one of your share names or * to match
> > all of your shares.
> 
> Almost. In fact, an exclude for "*" is applied to all shares *which don't
> have a specific exclude*. So, if you used, for example,
> 
> $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {
>     '/home/sorin' => [
>         '/Videos'
>     ],
>     '*' => [
>         '/ownCloud'
>     ]
> };
> 
> /home/sorin/Videos would be excluded, but /home/sorin/ownCloud would
> *not*!

Hmm. This could be applied to all cache-folders I don't want backed up.
With the info above, I'd need to add * and /cache, /Cache and perhaps
/.cache and /.Cache to catch them all.

Am I thinking correctly now?

-- 
//Sorin

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