I have set up BackupPC to backup my Windows XP Prof share. As I
have several users on my machine, I want to make sure that I back
up each of their "My Documents" folders. I also have a folder
that can appear in many different sub folders that I do not want
to be backed up. Plus, on top of these I want to ignore certain
files from being backed up, for example, *.tmp, *.log, .
My first attempt was to use "\Documents and Settings\*\My
Documents", however I received the following error
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID listing \Documents and Settings\*\My Docume
nts
tar: dumped 15 files and directories
As I mentioned earlier, I have a folder, "Do not archive", that
may appear at different levels, eg "\data\do not archive" or
"\data\Peter\doc\do not archive". So, I would prefer to put
something like "*\do not archive" to avoid these folders.
I also entered in the exclude for key *, *.log & *.tmp. However,
the test file I created was backed up. I then placed under the
key for the share, that is, Zleo, *.log, then the incremental did
not backup the file.
So, I had originally:
* => *.tmp
* => *.log
Which did not work and then replaced the "*" with the share name
and it worked.
So, my questions are:
1) Is there a feature that allows me to perform wildcards on
folders?
2) Is the syntax for excluding files, needs to have a key for a
share and not "*"
3) From the manual that talks about excluding files, there is
this statement "If a hash is used, a special key ``*'' means it
applies to all shares that don't have a specific entry." What is
meant by "If a hash is used"?
Thanks
Peter
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