Hello,

I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently  
added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which  
has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this  
directory, so I've added a BackupFilesExclude entry (i.e., /home/ 
username/directory) to my config. Sure enough, the directory is not  
being backed up -- that's good. The only problem is that since I've  
added this directory, backups are taking _very_ long; incrementals are  
taking 3 days, where they used to take 10 hours. So my guess is that  
the rsync is evaluating all of the directory's contents rather than  
excluding en masse.

When I run a manual rsync command with --exclude=/home/username/ 
directory, the file list takes a relatively short time. I figure that  
the rsync module isn't as smart?

Any insight would be certainly appreciated.

Cheers,
Ian

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