Hi, Bowie Bailey wrote on 2017-04-07 09:17:29 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding folders from backup]: > On 4/7/2017 2:55 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> From: Markus Koeberl [mailto:markus.koeb...@tugraz.at] > >> On Friday 07 April 2017 07:29:30 Sorin Srbu wrote: > >>> [...] > >>> The field BackupFilesOnly is empty, as this would override anything in > >>> BackupFilesExclude as per the documentation.
that is not true for rsync, only for smb (and possibly tar, though I don't think so). With rsync, you *can* use both BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude in combination. > >> [...] > >> It should look like this in your config file: > >> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ > >> '/home/sorin' > >> ]; > >> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > >> '/home/sorin' => [ > >> '/Videos', > >> '/ownCloud' > >> ] > >> }; > > [...] > > Doh! Now I get it! Thank you! > > You first have to add a "root" and then the folders you want excluded. > > Seeing it now, it's rather obvious. It doesn't seem to be that intuitive ... this mistake has been made a lot. Please note that, as Markus implied, the excludes need to be relative to the share, i.e. "/Videos" and "/ownCloud" - whether you use the share name or "*" as the key. An exclude of "/home/sorin/Videos" would match a file/directory "/home/sorin/home/sorin/Videos" (which you likely don't have, so the exclude would not have any effect). > AND the "root" must either match one of your share names or * to match > all of your shares. Almost. In fact, an exclude for "*" is applied to all shares *which don't have a specific exclude*. So, if you used, for example, $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = { '/home/sorin' => [ '/Videos' ], '*' => [ '/ownCloud' ] }; /home/sorin/Videos would be excluded, but /home/sorin/ownCloud would *not*! Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/