Craig Barratt schreef: > The rules don't accumulate. "*" means default, and is used only > if the share isn't explicitly specified. You interpretation is > I see. Hadn't thought of it like that. > probably more intuitive, but unfortunately that's the way it is. > More intuitive to me at least :-) But it would be more practical too I guess, because you could exclude tmp paths on every share with one single rule. > I've tried to make them consistent, but this is a general issue - > for example, the specifics of excludes and includes are different > for different XferMethods. > I understand, but since the specifics are well known and not likely to change every once in a while, I would think it would be easier to solve it in backuppc once, rather than having to explain the differences to each newbie all the time :-) But speaking as a user, not a developer, I would say that right now the insides of the patient are showing and that can't be how it is supposed to be. As a user, I don't want to know about all the differences, I want my tools to do that work for me.
Except for the either or problem with smbclient, I am sure it would not be hard to unify things either, seeing as most of it appears to be related to when and where to use a '/'. Anyway, don't mean to be creating extra work for anyone, just identifying what I think might be a candidate for improvement. Haven't finished my experiments yet, but so far, having run a pilot for several days now on several machines -- windows and linux, I can only say I am very satisfied with backuppc as a whole. The most valuable improvement I can see right now is VSS on windows, so we can finally backup those locked files too :-) regards, Erik -- ir. E. van Linstee VIA ict- en innovatiemanagement ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
