Hi

I've installed BackupPC on Debian Lenny to backup Ubuntu Desktops (/home for 
all), I need to exclude all hidden files which is taking up lots of space. My 
focus is on user data files.

With reference to this article 
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/backuppc-21/how-to-include-certain-files-76171/
 I tried the following (excuse me, i am perl ignorant )

1st. $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' => ['.*']};
2nd. $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' => ['.*'],};
3rd. $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {'*' => ['.*', 
'*/.*'],}
4th. $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {'*' => ['.*', 
'*/.*']}


All the above trials are generating these errors:
1. When I try to browse backup of the host it says "Error: Can't browse bad 
directory name /<username>"
2. LOG file: Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share /home)
3. XferLOG, Errors: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root sandeep-laptop env 
LC_ALL=C /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /home --totals --newer=2009-09-23\ 09:00:00 
--exclude=.\* .
incr backup started back to 2009-09-23 09:00:00 (backup #4) for directory /home
Xfer PIDs are now 29488,29487
[ skipped 1 lines ]
tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 
filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal

Other Info:
1. In Status page Failures that need attention has nothing
2. In the Host Summary web page it would say "done"

Thanks!

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