Jean-Michel Beuken <jean-michel.beuken <at> uclouvain.be> writes:

> 
> 
> Hello,
> I want to share my little experiment with Vi$ta...
> Related with backup of Vista client with rsyncd, you must pay attention
> of the  "junction points" 
> (http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/jpoints.htm
> ) and 
> the filesystem organisation of Vista 
(http://mutable.net/blog/archive/2008/03/31/vistas-virtualized-folders.aspx
> ).
> the avoid the problem of loop with the junction point and then, the
> "path too long" in the name of the path, 
> we add exclusions (partial list,it's a exemple, it depends of the path)
> in the rsyncd.conf :
> ------------------------------------------
> auth users = backuppc
> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> read only = true
> use chroot = false
> transfer logging = false
> log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> log format = %h %o %f %l %b
> hosts allow = 192.168.111.0/255.255.255.240
> hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
> strict modes = false
> [USER_2H0.002]
> path = /cygdrive/c/Users/
> auth users = backuppc
> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> exclude from = /cygdrive/c/cygwin/etc/exclude_user.txt
> ------------------------------------------
> and the "exclude_user.txt" file contains :
> ------------------------------------------
> - All Users
> - Default User
> - All Users/Application Data
> - All Users/Desktop
> - All Users/Documents
> - All Users/Favorites
> - All Users/Start Menu
> - All Users/Templates
> - Default/Application Data
> - Default/Cookies
> - Default/Local Settings
> - Default/My Documents
> - Default/NetHood
> - Default/PrintHood
> - Default/Recent
> - Default/SendTo
> - Default/Start Menu
> - Default/Templates
> - Default/AppData/Local/Application Data
> - Default/AppData/Local/History
> - Default/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files
> - Default/Documents/My Music
> - Default/Documents/My Pictures
> - Default/Documents/My Videos
> - Public/Documents/My Music
> - Public/Documents/My Pictures
> - Public/Documents/My Videos
> ...
> ------------------------------------------
> (this config works with backuppc 3.1.0 under Linux/CentOS 5.2 and the
> standard distribution of cygwin for the Vista machine)
> regards
> jmb
> 
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Hi All;

After messing with this I was finally able to get it working correctly. None 
of the other solutions provided seemed to work until & added the "***" as per 
the rsyncd man page which is the ultimate exclude. There does not appear to be 
any missing files in the backup set that have been filtered with these client 
side catch-all excludes. The BackupPC server rsync config still has the 
original WinXP exclusions on top of these client side excludes.

rsyncd.conf on Vista client:
[Users]
    path = c:/Users
    exclude from = c:/rsyncd/excludes.txt
    comment = Home Directories
    auth users = backuppc
    secrets file = c:/Users/username/rsyncd.secrets
    hosts allow = 192.168.0.250
    hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0
    strict modes = false
    read only = true
    list = false

excludes.txt content:
- All Users***
- Default User***
- Default***
- Administrator***
- Public***
- AppData***
- Application Data***
- Cookies***
- Local Settings***
- NetHood***
- PrintHood***
- Recent***
- SendTo***
- Start Menu***
- Templates***
- My Documents***
- My Music***
- My Pictures***
- My Videos***

Server: backuppc 3.1.0 on ubuntu 8.04.1 lts
Clients: Vista Ent 32bit cygwin-rsync client

  Allen...



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