Holger Parplies wrote at about 19:31:14 +0200 on Sunday, July 3, 2011:
> While the comments in config.pl state
>
> # This can be set to a string, an array of strings, or, in the case
> # of multiple shares, a hash of strings or arrays.
>
> that is actually incorrect. A hash of strings makes no sense. In fact, Perl
> would turn your example into a hash with "/proc" and "/pub" as keys and
> "/blaat" and "/tmp" as respective values - certainly not what you want.
> Turn your config value into an array (use '[]' instead of '{}'), and you
> should be fine. You'll notice that the examples correctly don't include a
> hash of strings.
>
I think by hash of strings, the following is meant:
$Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = { 'share1' => 'exclude-path1',
'share2' => 'exclude-path2',
...
}
This is just a simpler case of the hash of arrays that you illustrate
below. While I have not tried that syntax, I imagine that is what the
documentation refers to. Of course, the wording is not terribly clear
except maybe to those who already know what is going on (and
understand perl)...
> Better yet, use a full hash of arrays. That is easier to read and maintain,
> because it's explicit on which shares you want which excludes to apply to:
>
> $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = { '/' => [ '/proc', '/blaat', '/pub', '/tmp' ]
> };
>
> The leading '/' on your excludes is just fine, contrary to what has been
> said.
> It anchors them to the "transfer root". Without the slashes, you would also
> be
> excluding e.g. "/home/user/pub" and "/home/user/tmp", just as two examples of
> things you might *not* want to exclude (well, you might even want to exclude
> "/home/user/tmp", but really *any* file or directory named "tmp"? It's your
> decision, you can do whatever you want, even things like "tmp/" (only
> directories) or "/home/**/tmp/" (only directories somewhere under "/home") or
> "/home/*/tmp/" (only directories immediately in some user's home directory).
> See the rsync man page for details). Just note that if your share name is
> *not* "/", you'll need to remove that part from the excludes (e.g. for a
> share
> name "/var", to exclude /var/tmp you'll need to specify "/tmp" as the
> exclude,
> not "/var/tmp", which would try to exclude /var/var/tmp).
>
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