Why bother with:

> $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {>  '/home' => [>        '/steve/Packages'>  ]> 
> };
Why not just:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/home/steve/Packages']

i..e, prefix is not required with rsync (only smb).


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mark Maciolek wrote on 2011-10-27 07:54:26 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
> Exclusion not working with rsync]:
>> On 10/26/2011 8:49 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>> > I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.
>> > Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup.
>> > [...]
>> > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
>> >    '/etc',
>> >    '/boot',
>> >    '/home',
>> >    '/var/mail',
>> >    '/var/www',
>> >    '/sound+vision'
>> > ];
>> >
>> > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>> >    '/home' =>  [
>> >      '/home/steve/Packages'
>> >    ]
>> > };
>> > [...]
>>
>> Steve,
>>
>> You need to change the key /home should be *
>>
>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>>    '*' => ['
>>      '/home/steve/Packages
>>    ]
>> };
>
> that is plain wrong. This would, in effect, exclude
>
>        /etc/home/steve/Packages
>        /boot/home/steve/Packages
>        /home/home/steve/Packages
>        /var/mail/home/steve/Packages
>        /var/www/home/steve/Packages
>        /sound+vision/home/steve/Packages
>
> which does not get you much further than the original exclusion of
>
>        /home/home/steve/Packages
>
> Steve M. Robbins wrote on 2011-10-27 22:11:34 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
> Exclusion not working with rsync]:
>> [...]
>> Well, experimentation indicates that I need to strip off
>> the prefix;
>
> Right. Documentation also indicates that (rsync(1), probably also mentioned in
> the BackupPC docs - if you think about the examples in config.pl, they at
> least hint at this).
>
>> i.e. change [...] to
>>
>>  $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>>    '/home' => [
>>      'steve/Packages'
>>    ]
>>  };
>
> Actually, it's
>
> $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {
>  '/home' => [
>        '/steve/Packages'
>  ]
> };
>
> presuming you *only* want to exclude /home/steve/Packages and not
> /home/steve/**/Packages (where "**" matches any number of intermediate
> directories).
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
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