Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync
2009-05-12 20:05:21
Ian,
I have a similar question. I'm using rsync for transfer and need to
exclude a few windows directories such as system volume. I added the
path to the directory as rsync sees it on the other end
"/mnt/windows/system volume information" but it doesn't get excluded.
I see a permission denied in the logs and the incremental updates take
a long time to complete even if it doesn't copy a single file over.
I've tried using backslashes before the spaces, question marks in place
of the spaces, quotes, no quotes, spaces, no spaces, and nothing
works. When I used to do rsync backups manually I used an exclude file
with just "System Volume Information" and it worked. Any suggestions
would be great.
Tim
Ian Levesque wrote:
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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