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Re: [BackupPC-users] How to BackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP

2008-05-18 16:59:37
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to BackupFilesExclude to exclude locked files on Windows XP
From: Matthias Meyer <Matthias.Meyer AT gmx DOT li>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 22:59:09 +0200
Am Sonntag 18 Mai 2008 schrieb Kurt Jasper:
> Hi,
> 
> some of my client-pcs are running win xp/2000.
> They get backed up using SSH and rsync and everything seems to work 
> fine, except that every backup gives back some XferLOG Errors, because 
> it can not copy some locked files:
> 
> Remote[1]: rsync: send_files failed to open "/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und 
> Einstellungen/Administrator/Lokale 
> Einstellungen/Anwendungsdaten/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat": Device or 
> resource busy (16)
> Remote[1]: rsync: send_files failed to open "/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und 
> Einstellungen/Administrator/Lokale 
> Einstellungen/Anwendungsdaten/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat.LOG": 
> Device or resource busy (16)
> Remote[1]: rsync: send_files failed to open "/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und 
> Einstellungen/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT": Device or resource busy (16)
> Remote[1]: rsync: send_files failed to open "/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und 
> Einstellungen/Administrator/ntuser.dat.LOG": Device or resource busy (16)
> 
> So I added the following excludes to the CLIENT.pl file (of course in 
> one line):
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [
> '/cygdrive/c/*/NTUSER.DAT',
> '/cygdrive/c/*/ntuser.dat.LOG',
> '/cygdrive/c/*/UsrClass.dat',
> '/cygdrive/c/*/UsrClass.dat.LOG'];
> 
> 
> Unfortunately these excludes are not working, that leads to the QUESTION:
> 
> How can I exclude these files that can be found in every user-directory 
> using wildcards?
> 
> - Kurt
> 

Try to specify like this or use the GUI (specify "c" as Key and than all 
your exclusions behind this key):

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
  'c' => [
    '\\WINDOWS\\*.log',
    '\\RECYCLE*',
    'pagefile.sys',
    'hiberfil.sys '
  ]
};

br
Matthias
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