On Sat, 8 May 2010 17:35:47 +0100
Luis Paulo <luis.barbas AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Luis Paulo <luis.barbas AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The OP said that he is using tar and $Conf{RsyncArgs} directive...
> >
> 
> I made a bit of a mess
> 
> Steve is using tar, TarShareName is / and is using BackupFilesExclude
> on the GUI. Or trying to :)
> Not using $Conf{RsyncArgs} directive, as I said. That was Allen
> 
> Sorry, Steve
> As Allen point out for rsync, you may look at your XferLOG to see the
> tar command produced and check the syntax against the tar command
> syntax
> see http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC108
> 
> Sorry again about the mess
> Luis

No problem, Luis.

But I still don't have a solution. To summarize:

[steve@steve ~]$ rpm -qa | grep BackupPC
BackupPC-3.1.0-9.fc11.noarch

Using tar as the backup mechanism, I'm looking for a way to exclude
the .gvfs directory in a users home directory from the backup as it
produces an error. From the backup log:

Contents of file /media/disk/pc/steve/XferLOG.bad.z, modified
2010-05-08 14:41:36

Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /home/steve --totals
--newer=2010-05-06 00:00:09 . incr backup started back to 2010-05-06
00:00:09 (backup #284) for directory /home/steve Xfer PIDs are now
30316,30315 /bin/tar: ./.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied
...
rest of the transfer log.

I've tried everything I can think of for BackupFilesExclude including

.gvfs
*.gvfs
/home/*/.gvfs
*/.gvfs

I normally use / as the TarShareName but to cut down on the experiment
times I've been using /home/steve. So far nothing has worked. I always
get the same error.
Is this a bug? If so, is there a workaround?

Thanks,
Steve

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