On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a debian sarge box running backuppc 2.1.1 to back up a bunch of XP
> Pro Desktops and a Win2k3 fileserver. It was working fine at one point. I
> then had to rebuild the RAID5 that contains the /var/lib/backuppc
> datastore. I'm using the same config files but it stopped honoring the
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} directive and I can't figure out what's going
> on.
>
> I do not have a $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} defined in either config.pl or the
> host config files. Here's a copy of one of the host config files:
> ****BEGIN****
> #
> # SMB Backup (for Windows clients)
> #
>
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';
>
> $Conf{SmbShareName} = ['BACKUP$'];
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/WINDOWS/';
>
> # if needed set a user name and password to access the remote shares
> $Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'DOMAIN/AdminUser';
> $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'password';
> ****END****
>
> I have tried many variations of the BackupFilesExclude directive including:
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/WINDOWS' ];
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/WINDOWS/' ];
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/WINDOWS/*' ];
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/WINDOWS';
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = '/WINDOWS/*';
> etc..etc...
>
> No matter what I do it still backs up the WINDOWS directory [or any other
> directory I try to exclude].
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> DT
>
The answer is in the archives (watch out for line wrap):
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/5423/match=windows+smb+exclude
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/6311/match=windows+smb+exclude
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