On 2016-04-29 15:20, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 4/29/2016 7:04 AM, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I wonder if there is any support for wildcards in
>> BackupFilesOnly/BackupFilesExclude
>> configuration options? This has been raised several times in this maillist
>> (see [1]-[5]) and seems to be a desired feature. However for me personally it
>> does not work. I am using BackupPC to backup files locally:
>>
>> Running: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /var --totals
>> --exclude=./proc ./lib/cacti ./lib/dpkg ./www/*.ini
>> full backup started for directory /var
>> Xfer PIDs are now 1662,1661
>> [ skipped 5680 lines ]
>> /bin/tar: ./www/*.ini: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
>>
>> BackupPC v3.3.1
>>
>> [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/8072359/
>> [2] https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/8072369/
>> [3] https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/19273498/
>> [4] https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/19493568/
>> [5] https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/22116576/
> 
> Can you show us what your excludes look like in the backuppc config 
> file?  It looks like your exclude list is not being passed to tar 
> correctly.  Based on the syntax below, you are specifically backing up 
> /var/lib/cacti, /var/lib/dpkg, and /var/www/*.ini and only excluding 
> /var/proc.  The error is probably because there are no ini files in 
> /var/www.
> 
> I'm guessing that you have specified the excludes improperly in your 
> config file.

Actually I have cropped tar command line and removed almost all excludes.
They are inherited from /etc/backuppc/config.pl and are not overridden:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
  '*' => [
    '/proc',
    '/sys',
    '/dev',
    '/tmp',
    '/media',
    '/lost+found',
    '/usr/src',
    '/var/lib/backuppc'
  ]
};

The .ini files are present, because if I "extend" the list they all
get into backup (I can browse and view them). The configuration that
works:

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
  '/var' => [
    'lib/cacti',
    'lib/dpkg',
    'www/users.ini',
    'www/files.ini'
  ]
};

This configuration does not work:

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
  '/var' => [
    'lib/cacti',
    'lib/dpkg',
    'www/*.ini'
  ]
};

Actually I have tried this one:

$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
  '/var' => [
    'lib/cacti',
    'lib/dpkg',
    'www/*'
  ]
};

and it resulted the same error.
'www/*' resolves to many files for sure.

Thanks for looking into that.

-- 
With best regards,
Dmitry

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