Jean-Michel writes:

> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [
> '/Users/garant/Library/Preferences/ByHost/*00224126372e.plist' ];
> 
> notice the  wildcard '*' in the file list...
> 
> but it seems that BackupPC_dump  stats the file  BEFORE to exclude the
> file from backup because there is a "failed to open" message...
> 
> ---------------- log -----------------
> incr backup started back to 2009-01-12 10:05:19 (backup #30) for
> directory /Users/garant
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l garant 130.104.58.195 /usr/bin/rsync
> --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices
> --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive . /Users/garant/

Excludes are relative to the share name, which is /Users/garant
in this case.  So you should use this:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [
    '/Library/Preferences/ByHost/*00224126372e.plist' ];

Craig

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