Randy Barlow wrote: > I noticed that I have a ton of errors on the backup of my laptop of a > folder that I thought I had in the BackupFilesExclude, and it turns out > that I had simply misinterpreted the Web Interface. I had used the New > Key: part to put in the paths I didn't want to backup, rather then > putting the share name there and then next to it putting the paths in > that share that I didn't want to backup. I see how it works now, but it > wasn't completely intuitive to me, and I honestly didn't figure out the > problem until I took a look at /etc/BackupPC/config.pl and had a big > "Aha!" moment :) Not sure what I would suggest to improve it though, > except perhaps to use different language. Perhaps say "Share Name" > instead of "New Key" and in the boxed that appear next to the share > names, some kind of label like "Paths relative to share to be excluded" > (maybe that's too long...) so it's more clear?
Sorry for replying to my own thread, but one more thought I had: I think the web interface should generate an error for a user that tries to put values in "New Key" that aren't listed as a share name (Such as the variable RsyncShareName if rsync in the transport method). Since my RsyncShareName = '/', it shouldn't allow me to list '/tmp' as a "New Key", as an example. If this had given me an error, I might have figured out what was going on, and at least wouldn't have been trying to backup NCSU's entire distributed file system (gobs and gobs of terrabytes onto my tiny 160 GB HD :)) Thanks again! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. ~1 Peter 2:9-10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
