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Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup

2009-06-26 11:29:33
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup
From: Mark Maciolek <mlm AT sr.unh DOT edu>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:09:37 -0400
hi,

Should look more like this:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
   '*' => [
     '/tmp',
     '/proc'
   ]
};


Vladislav Tchernev wrote:
> Hi All, 
> I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files 
> from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting 
> Xfer->BackupFilesExclude  and  Xfer->RsyncArgs (--exclude="..."),  as well as 
> directly editing the conf files (the global and the host specific ones) but 
> without success. What I have tried to do is to exclude /proc but it seems I 
> can't manage to get rid of it since the error log keeps complining about it. 
> Bellow are some settings (I ended setting thouse directly in the config.pl) I 
> have tried. 
> 
> FYI: Am using backuppc-3.1.0-3 on Ubuntu 8.10
> 
> Thanks for your helps!
> Vlad
> 
> #1
> $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
>   '--numeric-ids',
>   '--perms',
>   '--owner',
>   '--group',
>   '-D',
>   '--links',
>   '--hard-links',
>   '--times',
>   '--block-size=2048',
>   '--recursive',
>   '--exclude="/proc"'
> 
> #2
> $Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
>   '--numeric-ids',
>   '--perms',
>   '--owner',
>   '--group',
>   '-D',
>   '--links',
>   '--hard-links',
>   '--times',
>   '--block-size=2048',
>   '--recursive',
>   '--exclude', '/proc'
> 
> #3
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>   '/proc' => ['/*']
> };
> 
> #3
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>   '/proc' => ['./*']
> }
> 
> #4
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>   '/proc/' => ['*']
> };
> 
> #4
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>   '/proc/' => ['']
> };
> 
> Thanks!
> Vlad
> 
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