Not an answer to your question, but I would suggest adding
--one-file-system to your rsync or tar options, this will prevent all of
those directories from being taken
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Michael McGregor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with the BackupFilesExclude setting not persisting or
> populating the website correctly.
>
> If I modify the BackupFilesExclude setting on the global config in the CGI
> interface, the settings make it into the config.pl correctly. But when I
> reload the global config webpage, the "values" for the hash are all gone.
> They are still in the config.pl file, but the CGI interface must not be
> parsing the setting correctly to populate the webpage. If I save any
> settings, the configuration is wiped out.
>
> I found this out the hard way as a server backup was backing up /proc when
> I found it.
>
> After editing the CGI interface to add the proper values, config.pl reads:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '/' => [
> 'dev',
> 'media',
> 'mnt',
> 'proc',
> 'run',
> 'sys',
> 'tmp'
> ]
> };
>
> After reediting the configuration through the CGI interface and saving,
> config.pl reads:
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '/' => []
> };
>
> Any advice?
>
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