On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 17:16 -0600, John Buttery wrote:
> I'm wondering if I've got the syntax right for this stuff...it looks
> right, but I can't find any actual examples anywhere and some of the
> files that I think should be excluded by this, aren't.
>
> This is BackupPC 2.1.1 as installed by Debian Sarge (the full package
> version string is '2.1.1-2sarge2').
>
> When excluding directories, do I need to put a trailing '/' character?
> Are wildcards allowed? When specifying directory names inside the
> per-share array, do I put the leading '/' characters?
>
> Also, this backup fails with the following error (the other 7 or 8
> hosts we back up are fine)...but I think this may be due to its trying
> to back up files that are getting created/destroyed or modified during
> the run. That problem should solve itself once the files start getting
> excluded properly, I'm guessing.
>
> The following hosts had an error that is probably caused by a
> misconfiguration. Please fix these hosts:
> - hostname (aborted by signal=ALRM)
>
> Here are the lines from the main config.pl that affect what's being
> backed up (as far as I know...I can send other stuff as required,
> didn't want to spam the list with the entire file :p).
>
> ----- cut here
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/','/usr','/var','/home'];
> ----- cut here
>
> And, here are the entire contents (excluding comments) of the
> host-specific config file for the machine in question:
>
> ----- cut here
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '/' => [
> '/dev',
> '/tmp',
> '/mnt',
> '/floppy',
> '/cdrom',
> '/proc'
> ],
>
> '/var' => [
> '/log/maillog',
> '/lib/mysql/data',
> '/lib/mysql/mysql',
> '/log/mysql/mysql.log',
> '/log/mysql/mysql-bin*',
> '/spool/exim4'
> ],
> };
> ----- cut here
Would you be running into problems because the other rsync share names
are included in "/"?
--
Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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