I think I spotted a mistake in my own speculative config. See below. Mark Adams wrote: > Greetings. Me again. > > I upgraded my backup server and configured two hard drives into a single > logical volume with LVM for my TopDir, and successfully configured > BackupPC to backup a share on one of my host machines. Rejoicing was > heard throughout the LAN. > > Now, I am faced with the necessity of backing up my /etc and some of my > user's home directory on that machine. > > I want to exclude several directories under my user's home directory, > but the information I've seen is all about configuring BackupPC for a > Windows host. I am assuming I need to change this: > > > $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { > '*' => [ > 'images', > 'Photos' > ] > }; > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ > '/mnt/share' > ]; > $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = '192.168.1.106'; > > > > To this: > > > $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { > '/mnt/share' => [ > 'images', > 'Photos' > ] > '/' => [ > 'etc' > ] > '/home' => [ > 'madams' > ] > }; > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '/home/madams' => ['/torrent', '/Download'], > }; > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ > '/mnt/share', '/home/madams', '/etc' > ]; > $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = '192.168.1.106'; > > > Is this right, or do I misunderstand this configuration? > > Thanks. > > I believe the $Conf{RsyncShareName} statement should involve '/' rather than '/etc'. The directory I want to backup is /etc which is a subdirectory of /. I also believe the /home/madams directory should be /home. Am I right?
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