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?
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