Thanks for the help, I now have it working.

Perhaps this is a bug in the web front end as I configured all the hosts
this way. Is this something that has been changed in the debian build or
is it something that is just not supposed to be done via web? I will
grab the current beta and see if this is still an issue. 

Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [mailto:chrome AT real-time DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 1:28 PM
To: General list for user discussion,questions and support
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Excludes not working

On 08/26 12:57 , Osburn, Michael wrote:
> I am trying to backup my backuppc server while excluding the backups
> directory. No matter what I put under excludes in the config, I still
> end up with the cpool and pc directories in my backups.

You misunderstand the exclude syntax. Here's an example for a (SMB)
share
named 'c$':

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
       'c$' => [
        '/RECYCLER', 
        '/winnt/tmp', 
        '/temp', 
        '/WUTemp', 
        '/WINDOWS', 
        '/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/Temporary Internet
Files/', 
        '/Documents and Settings/*/Local Settings/history/', 
        '/Documents and Settings/*/Cookies/', 
        '/Documents and Settings/*/Favorites/', 
        '/Documents and Settings/*/IETldCache/', 
        '/Documents and Settings/*/IECompatCache/', 
        '/Documents and Settings/*/NetHood/', 
        '/Documents and Settings/*/PrivacIE/', 
        '/Documents and Settings/*/PrintHood/', 
        '/pagefile.sys', 
        '/hiberfil.sys',
        ]
   };
 

A simpler version is this one, which I use for the 'localhost'
configuration.

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc',
'/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/mnt', '/media'];


To help you a little more along the way, here's the localhost.pl file I
use.
I use tar backups for the local machine rather than rsync, because
bandwidth
to the local machine is so cheap it's better to spend that than the CPU
cycles on rsync.

#
# Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc
#
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';

# let it back itself up anytime it wants to.
$Conf{BlackoutPeriods} = [];

$Conf{TarShareName} = ['/'];

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/proc', '/sys', '/var/lib/backuppc',
'/var/log', '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/mnt', '/media'];

$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath -c
-v -f
- -C $shareName --totals';

# remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
# needed for remote backups but may break local ones
$Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';

# turning off compression on these files, so they can be recovered
without
# backuppc.
# wouldn't make sense to need your backup server, 
# in order to recover your backup server, now would it?
$Conf{CompressLevel} = 0;


-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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