Akibu,
So we don't have to guess, please tell us the following settings from this
client's config file: $Conf{XferMethod}, the corresponding
$Conf{RsyncShareName} (or $Conf{SmbShareName} etc), $Conf{BackupFilesOnly}
and $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}.
Craig
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Akibu Flash <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you @[email protected] <[email protected]> for
> your response. In terms of share names, currently I am listing multiple
> shares on my “j” drive for backup e.g. /cygdrive/j/Documents;
> /cgdrive/j/Photos, etc. What I would like to do is to *not* list each
> share name and have backuppc backup the entire /cygdrive/j drive and merely
> have a couple of directories excluded since there are only a few
> directories on j that I don’t want backed up. Does this mean that in the
> web interface, my share name would be /cygdrive/j/*? And my excludes would
> be something like /cygdrive/j/useless_stuff_1;
> /cygdrive/j/useless_stuff_2?
>
>
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>
> *From:* Michael Stowe [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 18, 2017 8:05 PM
> *To:* General list for user discussion, questions and support <
> [email protected]>
> *Cc:* Akibu Flash <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC Excludes - How To
>
>
>
> On 2017-06-17 09:11, Akibu Flash wrote:
>
> Now that I have gotten my backuppc to work, I am backing up certain files
> on a Windows harddrive. Most of the directories and files on the harddrive
> are to be backed up, but I want to exclude several directories from the
> backup and the files contained therein. Instead of indicating to backuppc
> the directories to be backed up in RsyncShareName (which are numerous), I
> would like to merely tell backuppc to backup the entire drive (in this
> case, “/cygdrive/j/”) and to exclude several of the directories on the the
> j drive (e.g. hey backuppc, exclude “/cygdrive/j/useless_stuff_1”,
> “/cygdrive/j/useless_stuff_2” etc.). How can this be accomplished? When I
> look at the backuppc excludes function using the cgi interface, and the
> examples given, I am a bit confused. Do I merely type the below in the cgi
> interface to exclude the aforementioned:
>
> BackupFilesExclude = ['/cygdrive/j/useless_stuff_1',
> ‘/cygdrive/j/useless_stuff_2’] (btw, is the “=” needed in the box or do I
> just start with the open “[”)
>
> Or do I type the above or some variant directly into /etc/backuppc/
> config.pl or the akibu-desktop.pl config file? Thanks.
>
> Akibu
>
> Don't mix the syntax for the configuration web UI and the config.pl. The
> former will properly create the latter, and the web UI can be used without
> any particular knowledge of perl or use of brackets.
>
> On the web UI, you will have a list of share names, or *, and then a list
> of excludes belonging to those share names. This translates to the syntax
> often shared here which corresponds to what you'd see in the config.pl
> files.
>
> In either case, what you have above is incorrect, as your excludes need to
> correspond to a share ('*' is fine, if you want to associate excludes with
> all shares.) Since it's not obvious what your share names are, I can't tell
> you what this would be — ‘/cygdrive/j’ perhaps, but if it doesn't match the
> actual share, it won't exclude anything.
>
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