i'm resending this question, since i don't believe i saw a
response. is anyone else successfully using BackupFilesExclude
with the tar method?
(i'd simply add the "--exclude" args to the tarcmd itself, except
i see from the docs that there's trickery involved in escaping
wildcard characters.)
i wrote:
> > > i'd like to be able to flag any file or directory that i want
> > > backuppc to skip by adding a "._nobackup_" suffix to its name.
> > >
> > > will this do the trick? (backup method is tar)
> > >
> > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/proc'. '*._nobackup_' };
craig wrote:
> >
> > You need a comma instead of a period. Otherwise it should work.
>
i wrote:
> i'm a little confused. this doesn't seem to be working.
>
> if i look at the XferLOG (or at the running backup tar process on
> a client system), the tar command for the backup doesn't include
> a --exclude argument. where does the contents of
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} get transformed and applied to the tar
> arguments? the docs imply that they should be part of $fileList, but
> in my case this appears to simply be ".": (wrapped for clarity)
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -x -q -n -l root woodruff /bin/tar
> --one-file-system -c -v -f - -C / --totals
> --newer=2005-12-04\ 00:38:48 .
>
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