On 13/10/14 08:54, Tom Fallon wrote:
> Thanks Doug
>
> by my limited understanding, the * wildcard in my example below would
> mean the system would exclude any directory called "proc" or "sys" etc
> regardless of the share, whereas what I think should be used is
> ryncshare = / and then specify the directories under there explicitly
> which I had done.
>
> Amending to '*' => [ in the config.pl file resulted in same behaviour
> I've been seeing all along.
>
> In your config I'd expect it to be excluding file types by extension
> rather than directories.
>
> I could try '*/proc' etc I guess but think thats a bandaid approach and
> would really like to get this working the way its supposed to based on
> the documentation.
>
> regards Tom
>
> On 12/10/14 22:32, Doug Lytle wrote:
>> Tom Fallon wrote:
>>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>>>     '*' => [
>>>       'proc',
>>>       'sys',
>> My list shows:
>>
>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>>      '*' => [
>>        '*/Cache',
>>        '*.mp3',
>>        '*.MP3',
>>        '*.m4a',
>>        '*.M4A',
>>        '*.m4v',
>>      ]
>> };
>>

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
     '/' => [
         '/proc/'
         '/tmp/'
     ]
};


The '/' is the share name, so using * just means all shares, since you 
only have one share, then there is no difference.
I would suggest using /proc/ (trailing slash) because then you will 
backup the directory without the contents. After a full restore, you 
will need the directory /proc to exist, or else mounting /proc will 
fail, same with /tmp etc.
Also, be careful when excluding /var/log or similar, as some software 
will want subdirectories to exist.

Also, you could consider add --one-file-system to the rsync command 
which will automatically skip any other mounted drives/partitions.

Finally, if it is still not working, please post the full config file, 
along with the log from a full backup run (at least the start where it 
shows what command was sent, and a sample where it has backed up some 
files that you had requested).


Regards,
Adam

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