(BTW: Please start a new thread, don't just reply to another mail.)

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:59:35AM -0700, James Ward wrote:

> I've recently built a new BackupPC server with Debian lenny and  
> BackupPC version 3.1.0.  All my prior BackupPC experience has been  
> with 2.*.  The strange problem I am having is that my excludes don't  
> seem to be passed.
> 
> Here's the relevant section from the main config:
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>   '/sys' => [
>     ''
>   ],
>   '/vz/root' => [
>     ''
>   ],
>   '/proc' => [
>     ''
>   ],
>   '/vz/private' => [
>     ''
>   ],
>   '/mnt' => [
>     ''
>   ]
> };

The excludes are specified per share. So it should read:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
  '/' => [ '/sys/', '/vz/root/', ... ] 
};

('/' being your share name here if you use rsync via ssh.)

HTH,

Tino.

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