On 09/19/2011 01:04 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 9/19/2011 11:16 AM, Raman Gupta wrote:
>> On 09/18/2011 10:29 PM, Adam Monsen wrote:
>>> AHA, adding the following entry to BackupFilesOnly '*' worked:
>>>
>>> /opt/backup/stage/other/*
>>>
>>> Now that directory is backed up. But I don't understand why. :)
>> Because
>>
>> /opt/backup/stage/other
>>
>> backs up the directory entry itself, but not its contents.
>>
>> /opt/backup/stage/other/*
>>
>> backs up the directory entry and contents but not subdirectories.
>>
>> /opt/backup/stage/other/**
>>
>> backs up the directory and all contents, including subdirectories.
>>
>> Do "man rsync" and check out the section "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES".
>
> That's not the behavior that I'm seeing. I have a linux host that I am
> backing up via rsyncd. BackupFilesOnly includes "/etc" and a couple of
> other directories. This successfully backs up the entire subtree on all
> three specified directories. No asterisks required anywhere.
You are right, my apologies. Please ignore my comments above.
When using BackupFilesOnly BackupPC does some manipulation of the
paths before passing them to rsync, so the normal rsync rules don't apply.
I like to pass my arguments directly to the rsync protocol, so I do:
$Conf{RsyncArgsExtra} = [
'--exclude-from=$confDir/pc/$host.exclude',
];
to create per-client exclude files in the form specified by the rsync
man page, which gives me a bit more control over the arguments as well
as externalizes the includes/excludes into separate files.
Cheers,
Raman
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