Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup

Adam Goryachev 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"'
> Check the man page, but I use the flag like --one-file-system so that
> it won't backup any mounted dir...
>> #3
>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>>   '/proc' => ['/*']
>> };
> Try:
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>   '*' => ['/proc']
> };
> 
> The syntax says where I put the * you should specify the sharename, or
> * to match all.
> Where I put /proc is a list of path names to exclude.
> 

Or for a more drastic approach, add --one-file-system to the RsyncArgs 
list, which will exclude all mount points.   I do that because I 
frequently have DVDs or NFS mounts in random places that I don't want to 
have backed up.   But, then you must be very careful to add share 
entries for all of the mounted file systems that you do want, and 
remember that if you add more later.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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