Ahh, ok i get it now, so then i should back up "/" then exclude what i want, as an example as anything i put would be under the root..
Thanks dude! Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990-4444 Craig Barratt wrote: > Rob writes: > > >> Below is my localhost.pl file, i install this via apt-get on Debian Etc. >> But for some reason it still backs up the files i have in the exclude >> section... did i miss something? >> >> $Conf{TarShareName} = >> ['/etc','/var/www/ispcp','/var/mail','/usr/local/bin','/var/lib']; >> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/var/log', '/var/lib/backuppc', >> '/var/lib/backuppc.off','/var/oldjoe']; >> > > The excludes are relative to the share. If you have > multiple shares, $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} should be > a hash with one entry per share. Excluding /var/log > and /var/oldjoe makes no difference since those paths > aren't below the shares. > > You should use something like this: > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '/var/lib' => ['/backuppc', '/backuppc.off'], > } > > Craig > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
