I use the single backslash in the GUI - it doubles it in the .pl.  I'll try the forward slash.  Seems like I've tried that too.  But case sensitivity of the share name?!  That's interesting.  I see my SmbShareName is uppercase (C$), but my ExcludeList is lowercase (c$) - Good grief.  I bet you're right, that's probably it.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT buc DOT com> wrote:

On 7/6/2012 4:54 PM, Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote:
> Yes, thank you.  Now *THIS* is more like it!
>
>     Contents of file /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/bkeadle-vmw732/XferLOG.2.z,
>     modified 2012-07-06 13:01:55 (Extracting only Errors)
>
>     Running: /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\bkeadle-vmw732\\C\$ -U VOP/BackupPC -E -d 1 -c tarmode\ full -Tc -
>     full backup started for share C$
>     Xfer PIDs are now 6399,6398
>     [ skipped 2 lines ]
>     NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \Documents and Settings\*
>     NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote file \pagefile.sys (\)
>     [ skipped 4646 lines ]
>     File size change - truncating \Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\logs\LocalStore\zmd-messages.log to 3218892 bytes
>     [ skipped 1224 lines ]
>     NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \ProgramData\Application Data\*
>     NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \ProgramData\Desktop\*
>     NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \ProgramData\Documents\*
>     NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED listing \ProgramData\Favorites\*
>     [ skipped 75 lines ]
>     NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote file \ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\StateData\RacMetaData.dat (\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\StateData\)
>     NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote file \ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\StateData\RacWmiEventData.dat (\ProgramData\Microsoft\RAC\StateData\)
>     [ skipped 45 lines ]
>     NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote file \ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\MSS.log (\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\)
>     [ skipped 31 lines ]
>     NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote file \ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\tmp.edb (\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\)
>     NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote file \ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb (\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\)
>     [ skipped 285 lines ]
>     NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote file \ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\IMpService925A3ACA-C353-458A-AC8D-A7E5EB378092.lock (\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\)
>     [ skipped 60 lines ]
>     NT_STATUS_SHARING_VIOLATION opening remote file \ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\CacheManager\MpSfc.bin (\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Scans\History\CacheManager\)
>     [ skipped 81 lines ]
>
>
> So from this, I can build my Exclude list.  Most of
> the NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> are Windows 7 Junctions, which I understand would get this error, thus
> I want to exclude them.  However, I'm having difficulty getting the
> exclude to work.  As shown above, it's trying to backup pagefile.sys
> despite my exclusions set, as shown here:
>
>     'c$' => [
>         'Temp\\*',
>         'Recycle bin\\*',
>         'Temporary Internet Files\\*',
>         '\\pagefile.sys',
>         '\\hiberfil.sys',
>         'IconCache.db',
>         '~*',
>         '\\RECYCLER',
>         '*.vmdk',
>         '*.lock',
>         'Thumbs.db',
>         'IconCache.db',
>         'Cache*',
>         'cache*',
>         '\\$Recycle.Bin\\*',
>         '\\MSOCache\\*',
>         '\\System Volume Information\\*',
>         '\\Documents and Settings\\*'
>       ]
>
> So what am I missing with my syntax?  I originally *just* had
> 'pagefile.sys'.  When that didn't work, I specified the backslash
> prefix.

Try using a forward slash rather than the double backslashes.  It's much
easier to read and Samba will translate for you.  For example:
'/pagefile.sys'

Also, the share name is probably case-sensitive.  This is most likely
your real problem.

--
Bowie

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