So I believe I have figured it out. Seems rsync does relative filtering
from the "root" directory that you are copying from. Here is the little
blurb from the rsync man:
o if the pattern starts with a / then it is anchored to a
particu-
lar spot in the hierarchy of files, otherwise it is
matched
against the end of the pathname. This is similar to a leading
^
in regular expressions. Thus "/foo" would match a file
named
"foo" at either the "root of the transfer" (for a global
rule)
or in the merge-file's directory (for a per-directory rule).
An
unqualified "foo" would match any file or directory named
"foo"
anywhere in the tree because the algorithm is applied
recur-
sively from the top down;
so I removed the beginning of the directory I was trying to filter and left
the pattern as rootfs/proc and it seems to be working.
Sri
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Sri Rao <s...@cloudflare.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to backuppc. I have setup the server and it is backing things
> okay except in one instance. I am trying to backup a machine specifying
> multiple sharenames. For one of the shares I want to exclude some subdirs
> from being backed up. I am using the rsync method. For some reason it
> doesn't seem to be excluding that subdir though. Here is the log:
>
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l backuppc xxxx /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender
> --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times
> --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /usr/var/lib/perceus/
>
> Xfer PIDs are now 9350
> Got remote protocol 30
> Negotiated protocol version 28
> Sent exclude: /usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/*/rootfs/proc/*
> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
> "/usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/gravityos-cf-logger/rootfs/proc/2/exe"
>
> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
> "/usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/gravityos-cf-logger/rootfs/proc/2/task/2/exe"
> Remote[2]: file has vanished:
> "/usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/gravityos-cf-logger/rootfs/proc/3/exe"
>
> I have set the sharenames and in BackupFilesExclude set the key to be the
> share /usr/var/lib/perceus and the value to
> /usr/var/lib/perceus/vnfs/*/rootfs/proc/* . What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Sri
>
>
>
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