Hi,
Arch Willingham wrote on 27.10.2007 at 10:49:24 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get
excludes to work]:
> When all else fails, try em' all! I don't know which part fixed it but this
> ended up working:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '\\backup\\*' => [
> ''
> ],
that one is nonsense ...
> '/backup/*' => [
> ''
> ],
... and that one too. The hash key is the share the exclude applies to, and
I doubt you have a share named "\backup\*" or "/backup/*". Even if you do,
you would be asking BackupPC to exclude the file "" from that share.
> '*' => [
> '\\backup\\*',
> '/backup/*'
> ]
I believe both of these would work, but I'm no SMB expert. Note that
your excludes apply to every share you happen to back up, not just 'C$'
(or whatever it's named). Note also that if you *add* excludes for the
share ('C$' => [ 'foo' ]), the default excludes ('*') will no longer apply.
As a side note, at least DOS system calls *do* actually recognize '/' as a
path separator. It's just not much fun getting command.com to pass along
slashes in parameters :). As for Windoze, I wouldn't be surprised if that is
still true, if just because they didn't find the code they would have had to
take out.
I believe, though, that it is smbclient that implements the excludes, so it
would make sense to recognize both the native path separator of the host
system (UNIX, /) and the client, err, server, err, remote Windoze system
where the accessed files lives.
What you probably really want is either
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'C$' => [ '/backup/*' ]
};
or
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'C$' => [ '\backup\*' ]
};
(presuming your share name is really 'C$'; adjust accordingly if it is not).
Regards,
Holger
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