Using rsync, I exclude '/*/tmp' from my backups. So if I'm backing up
/home, it'll exclude /home/user/tmp, but not /home/user/myfolder/tmp.
You could also try excluding '/**/tmp'. Rsync interprets the double
asterisk to mean "any number of directories", not just a single
directory. I'm not sure if it works with BackupPC though.
-Rob
Erik van Linstee wrote:
> 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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