While experimenting with rsync and rsyncd I noticed some unexpected
behaviour.
Consider the very simple config file below. It is intended to backup all
files in /doc/private on hd, expect for those found in temp or tmp
directories.
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
'hdc'
];
$Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsyncd';
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {
'hdc' => [
'/docs/private'
]
};
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'hdc' => [
'tmp'
],
'*' => [
'temp'
]
};
But it fails miserably as can be seen from the log below. It completely
ignores the rule to exclude temp.
full backup started for directory hdc (baseline backup #7)
Connected to triplt1:873, remote version 29
Negotiated protocol version 28
Connected to module hdc
Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D
--links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . .
Sent include: /docs
Sent include: /docs/private
Sent exclude: /*
Sent exclude: /docs/*
Sent exclude: tmp
Xfer PIDs are now 15442
However, if I remove the exclude rule for tmp, I get:
full backup started for directory hdc (baseline backup #7)
Connected to triplt1:873, remote version 29
Negotiated protocol version 28
Connected to module hdc
Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D
--links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . .
Sent include: /docs
Sent include: /docs/private
Sent exclude: /*
Sent exclude: /docs/*
Sent exclude: temp
I am not sure if this is intended behaviour, but it certainly is not
expected. If would expect those rules to accumulate, having rules with *
as a key to apply to all shares -- making it easy to always for instance
exclude temporary directories -- on top of rules specific for a share.
Any thoughts?
By the way, I also think it would be nice if backuppc could apply some
magic to make definitions uniform. Right now, an rsync share must be
entered as /home, whereas the same share as an rsyncd module, would be
entered as home. As on Samba. Maybe backuppc could translate home to
/home for rsync.
regards,
Erik
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