All,
I have had to reconfigure backuppc a little so that I can
get it to work with my external USB drive. This mainly involved getting
my external drive mounted as NFS, and also mounting it to /var/lib/backuppc
Backuppc will start just fine and I can log into the web
interface and see my client (local machine) and see the configuration
settings, both the global one and for the specific machine.
The specific machine configuration file is configured so
that ‘TarShareName’ contains: /var, /etc, /photos, ……and
several other partitions. I also have set the ‘BackupFilesExclude’ to:
/var/lib/backuppc.
When I start a full backup I notice that the file NewFileList
is creating entries for /var/lib/backuppc/* which is confusing to me as I’d
expect this to be exclude since it is part of the exclusion path.
I am using tar as the XferMethod.
Am I missing something that would prevent the exclude from
working ?
I am running backuppc on Mandriva 2009.0 and I have version
3.1.0-7.