On 7/1/2011 11:22 AM, Chris Baker wrote:
>> >From the docs:
>>
>> For Smb, only one of $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} and
>> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} can be specified per share. If both are set for a
>> particular share, then $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} takes precedence and
>> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} is ignored.
> I already knew this.
>
> In many cases, I am setting only excludes for a smb share. My excludes are
> not working at all.
>
>> So you will need to either modify your setup so you don't need to use
>> both includes and excludes (can you set up separate shares for each
>> include?), or you will need to switch to using rsync.
> In many respects, my only option is to backup the entire hard drive. After
> this, I want to exclude obvious things like the Windows and Program Files
> directories. But excludes do not work.
>
> And they also worked on the earlier version of BackupPC using the exact
> same syntax.Then show us an excerpt from your config so we can see exactly what you are doing. Make sure to show at least your share definitions and includes/excludes. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
