> -----Original Message----- > From: Holger Parplies [mailto:wb...@parplies.de] > Sent: den 7 april 2017 18:49 > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <backuppc- > us...@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Excluding folders from backup > > 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*!
Hmm. This could be applied to all cache-folders I don't want backed up. With the info above, I'd need to add * and /cache, /Cache and perhaps /.cache and /.Cache to catch them all. Am I thinking correctly now? -- //Sorin
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