Michael-
This was very recently covered under the subject of "BackupFilesExclude
issue" thread started by Mark Moorcroft.
A fix for the issue has been posted:
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Craig Barratt <cbarratt@users.sourceforge.
net> wrote:
> I pushed a fix
> <https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/commit/7936184a9ec049fef3d0d67e012b23d79eb336f1>
> for
> this last night.
> Craig
>
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Ray Frush
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Michael McGregor <mcgrm...@isu.edu> 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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