On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 07:51:57PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> John Rouillard wrote at about 17:48:02 +0000 on Thursday, December 11, 2008:
>  > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:14:48AM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
>  > > James writes:
>  > > 
>  > > > I have the following config line:
>  > > > 
>  > > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/mnt', '/sys', '/home/
>  > > > users',  ... , '+ /vz/dump', '/vz/*'];
>  > > > 
>  > > > But there is no /vz/dump in the backups.  What am I doing wrong?
>  > > 
>  > > You can't use the rsync syntax (+/-) in $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}.
>  > > You can use $Conf{RsyncArgs} directly if you want.
>  > > 
>  > > Craig
>  > 
>  > Craig, it may not be intended to work, but in the current 3.x series
>  > it does.
>  > If RsyncArgs was settable/augmentable on a per share basis that would
>  > also work. Something like:
>  > 
> I can't help you on a per share basis, but I posted last week about a
> trick to use perl code and symlinks to be able to use a single config
> file that uses arbitrary perl conditions to set parameters by host.

Yeah, I have been doing something similar for a while. The per share
settings are the critical part.

-- 
                                -- rouilj

John Rouillard
System Administrator
Renesys Corporation
603-244-9084 (cell)
603-643-9300 x 111

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