Sorry I didn't mention the xfer method. All servers use rsync over ssh. I
plan to try the above this weekend with the full runs.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Michael Stowe wrote on 2013-05-31 08:21:03 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
> Exclude directories]:
> > > On each of our samba servers inside of each share is a .deleted folder
> > > that
> > > all of the files that a user deletes from the share within windows
> goes to
> > > instead of actually being deleted immediately. I do not want to back
> these
> > > up but they are not all in the same path on all the servers. What is
> the
> > > correct syntax to exclude these from the backups? Should */.deleted
> work?
> > > Or will I need to explicitly declare all the paths?
> >
> > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> > '*' => [
> > '*/.deleted'
> > '*/.deleted/*'
> > ]
> > };
>
> strictly, this depends on the XferMethod (which the OP did not mention),
> but
> the above looks as though it should mostly work. For rsync(d), the '*/' in
> the
> patterns is meaningless except for preventing '.deleted' at the top level
> within the share to match. Probably the same holds for tar, but I didn't
> check. As for smb, there always seems to be confusion whether in-/excludes
> need to contain slashes or backslashes. My memory seems to say
> "backslashes",
> but I haven't ever used smb XferMethod myself.
>
> In any case, it should be possible to use wildcards and *not* list all
> paths.
> Again, the syntax of in-/excludes depends on the XferMethod used.
>
> Regards,
> Holger
>
>
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