That explains things! Seems like maybe the web interface needs a bit of 
improvement in this regard.

In the web interface (which is how I added the exclusions), it simply 
has a box for you to put a pathname to exclude and push "Add".

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- Nick Bright
   Network Administrator
   Valnet, LLC
   Tel 888-332-1616 x 315
   Fax 620-332-1201


Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Nick Bright wrote:
>> In my /etc/BackupPC/pc/host.pl file, I have the
>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} directive configured as:
>>
>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>>    '/usr/local/vpopmail/domains' => [
>>      ''
>>    ],
>>    '/usr/local/MPP/working' => [
>>      ''
>>    ],
>>    '/proc' => [
>>      ''
>>    ],
>>    '/var/qmail/queue' => [
>>      ''
>>    ],
>>    '/backup' => [
>>      ''
>>    ]
>> };
>>
>> This was configured through the web interface, on BackupPC v3.1.0.
>> Backup method is "rsync".
>>
>> The backup runs, but it disregards my exclude directives and backs up
>> the directories I'm telling it not to back up. Unfortunately, because
>> of the first exclude line not being excluded, this is making the
>> backup take about 20 hours to run!
>>
>> Any thoughts as to why these directories aren't being excluded?
> 
> Because you have not told it to exclude anything.  It works like this:
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>    'ShareName' => [
>      'Exclusion'
>    ],
> };
> 
> So you have a list of (probably invalid) share names, none of which have
> any exclusions.  You probably want to do something like this:
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>    '/' => [
>        '/usr/local/vpopmail/domains',
>        '/usr/local/MPP/working',
>        '/proc',
>        '/var/qmail/queue',
>        '/backup',
>    ]
> };
> 
> Assuming that you are backing up the root directory.
> 

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