Hi,

Mark Adams wrote on 2008-12-08 14:37:54 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
BackupFilesExcludes for Linux]:
> I think I spotted a mistake in my own speculative config.  See below.

right, and there's a second one along the same line ...

> [...]
> > $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
> >   '/mnt/share' => [
> >     'images',
> >     'Photos'
> >   ]
> >  '/' => [
> >    'etc'
> >   ]
> >  '/home' => [
> >   'madams'
> >   ]
> > };
> > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> >  '/home/madams' => ['/torrent', '/Download'],

This should be

     '/home' => [ '/maddams/torrent', '/maddams/Download' ],
 
> >  };
> > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
> >   '/mnt/share', '/home', '/'
[edited to match your correction]
> > ];
> > $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = '192.168.1.106';

As Matthias probably meant to point out, you can achieve the same with

    $Conf {RsyncShareName} = [ '/etc', '/home/maddams', '/mnt/share/images',
                               '/mnt/share/Photos' ];
    $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = { '/home/maddams' => [ '/torrent',
                                                        '/Download'] };

or even

    $Conf {RsyncShareName} = [ '/' ];
    $Conf {BackupFilesOnly} = {
        '/' => [ '/etc', '/home/maddams', '/mnt/share/images',
                 '/mnt/share/Photos' ],
    };
    $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {
        '/' => [ '/home/maddams/torrent', '/home/maddams/Download' ],
    };

This is, of course, just as speculative as your config, but I believe it
*should* work that way :-).

The important part is that the hash keys in BackupFilesOnly and
BackupFilesExclude need to match your {RsyncShareName}s exactly, else they
will simply be ignored (there is no magic that determines that '/home/maddams'
lies within the '/home' share). Aside from that, *with rsync and tar* (not
rsyncd and smb) you are rather free to split your paths into share names and
BackupFilesOnly entries any way you like. Less shares probably means less
overhead and a backup definition that is easier to understand. If you use
'--one-file-system', you will need extra shares for anything on different file
systems (probably '/home' and '/mnt/share' in your case).

Regards,
Holger

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