On 2016-02-18 04:45, BrunoVonTroba wrote:
> BackupPC 3.3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> I have a share (home) to backup.
> But i want to exclude specific files to be backed up only once a month
> So i have crated 2 backup's. In first one backup all in /home
> directory except virtualbox Files (.vdi). Here everything works fine -
> vdi files are not being backed up.
> LOG:
> incr backup started back to 2016-01-21 14:19:11 (backup #0) for 
> directory home
> Connected to IP________:873, remote version 31
> Negotiated protocol version 28
> Connected to module home
> Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group
> -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . .
> Sent exclude: *.vdi
> Xfer PIDs are now 17741
> 
> In the second one I want only backup vdi files, so in config i have
> made option BackupFilesOnly to *.vdi
> And here is a problem. BackupPC says there is no files to backup. It
> does not matter, what i will write down in include field - i have try
> everything:
> *.vdi
> /*.vdi
> .vdi
> /foldernamewithvdi/
> It does not work.
> 
> LOG:
> full backup started for directory home
> Connected to IP_______:873, remote version 31
> Negotiated protocol version 28
> Connected to module home
> Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group
> -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive
> --ignore-times . .
> Sent include: /*.vdi
> Sent exclude: /*
> Xfer PIDs are now 18659
> [ skipped 1 lines ]
> Done: 0 files, 0 bytes
> Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share home)
> Backup aborted (No files dumped for share home)
> Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the
> prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 189)
> 
> Is there any way to use BackupFilesOnly or i just have to make another
> Rsync share with virtualbox folders and use it? Because
> BackupFilesOnly option seems to not work properly.

 From the above, it certainly appears that you're sending an exclude of 
"*", so I'd expect no files to ever be included in the set of files to 
be backed up.

Perhaps it would help if you posted the relevent sections of your actual 
configuration for the shares & exclusions, etc.

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