On Fri, 07 May 2010 12:17:14 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> On 5/7/2010 10:33 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 May 2010 15:56:00 +0100
> > Luis Paulo<luis.barbas AT gmail DOT com>  wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Allen<allen.stowe AT rogers DOT com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>> Hi Richard et al;
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps I should have been more specific... This is included in my
> >>> global configuration under RsyncArgs for rsync.
> >>>
> >>>     --exclude */.gvfs
> >>>
> >>> I never use BackupFilesExcludes for rsync.
> >>>
> >>>   Allen...
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi, Allen
> >>
> >> To get the right syntax right is not easy, in my experience
> >>
> >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupfilesexclude_
> >> - don't really help much when it doesn't work :)
> >>
> >> I think the way you write it depends on the method you are using
> >>
> >> Now you said rsync, but in your first post it looks like tar.
> >> Please clarify.
> >
> > I'm trying to use tar and as I said I'm trying to use the GUI
> > inerface.
> >
> > */.gvfs didn't work either
> 
> Did you mention the version you are using?  There is this bug report
> for 3.0.x in debian:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437451
> 
I'm using BackupPC-3.1.0-9.fc11.noarch.

The Debian bug looks similar but in my case even if I put in the full
path name of the directory, /home/steve/.gvfs, I still get the same
error.

[steve@steve ~]$ ls -ld .gvfs
dr-x------. 2 steve steve 0 2010-05-07 09:24 .gvfs

Steve

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