You need to pass "share name" as KEY to exclude settings. And add unwanted elements within that KEY.
See details and examples in built-in docs or here http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/BackupPC-4.1.3.html#_conf_backupfilesexclude_ it is not correct syntax, but the idea: share name: /home/dave exclude files: "/home/dave" => [data] 30.10.2017, 06:09, "daveinredm...@excite.com" <daveinredm...@excite.com>: > I can't seem to get this to work on BackupPC 4.1.3. I have a test script to > back up some home directories on a Ubuntu 16.04 server: > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '/data' => [ > '' > ] > }; > $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = [ > 'ServerName' > ]; > $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -l backup $host nice -n 19 sudo $rsyncPath > $argList+'; > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = [ > '/home/dave' > ]; > $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; > > that generates the following log (I've obviously run multiple variations of > this test script earlier with slashes before or after everything I could > think of): > > Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/test7/XferLOG.0.z, modified 2017-10-29 > 14:39:08 > > XferLOG file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/test7/XferLOG.0.z created 2017-10-29 > 14:39:07 > Backup prep: type = full, case = 1, inPlace = 1, doDuplicate = 0, newBkupNum > = 0, newBkupIdx = 0, lastBkupNum = , lastBkupIdx = (FillCycle = 0, noFillCnt > = ) > Running: /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc --bpc-top-dir /var/lib/backuppc > --bpc-host-name test7 --bpc-share-name /home/dave --bpc-bkup-num 0 > --bpc-bkup-comp 3 --bpc-bkup-prevnum -1 --bpc-bkup-prevcomp -1 > --bpc-bkup-inode0 1 --bpc-attrib-new --bpc-log-level 1 -e /usr/bin/ssh\ -l\ > root --rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync --super --recursive --protect-args > --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --times --links --hard-links > --delete --delete-excluded --one-file-system --partial --log-format=log:\ %o\ > %i\ %B\ %8U,%8G\ %9l\ %f%L --stats --checksum --timeout=72000 > ServerName:/home/dave/ / > full backup started for directory /home/dave > Xfer PIDs are now 10015 > This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/local/bin/rsync_bpc > Xfer PIDs are now 10015,10048 > xferPids 10015,10048 > new recv cd+++++++++ rwxr-xr-x 1000, 1001 4096 . > same recv >f..t.og... rw------- 1000, 1001 599 .bash_history > same recv >f..tpog... rw-r--r-- 1000, 1001 220 .bash_logout > same recv >f..tpog... rw-r--r-- 1000, 1001 3771 .bashrc > same recv >f..tpog... rw-r--r-- 1000, 1001 655 .profile > same recv >f..tpog... rw-r--r-- 1000, 1001 0 .sudo_as_admin_successful > same recv >f..tp..... rw-r--r-- 0, 0 0 junque > new recv cd+++++++++ rwx------ 1000, 1001 4096 .cache > same recv >f..tpog... rw-r--r-- 1000, 1001 0 .cache/motd.legal-displayed > new recv cd+++++++++ rwx------ 1000, 1001 4096 .ssh > same recv >f..tpog... rw-r--r-- 1000, 1001 888 .ssh/known_hosts > new recv cd+++++++++ rwxr-xr-x 1000, 1001 4096 data > new recv cd+++++++++ rwxr-xr-x 1000, 1001 4096 data/ul > same recv >f..tpog... rw-r--r-- 1000, 1001 399 data/ul/BackupPC_id_rsa.pub > same recv >f..tpog... rw-r----- 1000, 1001 185 data/ul/servername.pl > Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 > sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 23 inode > > Number of files: 15 > Number of files transferred: 10 > Total file size: 6717 bytes > Total transferred file size: 6717 bytes > Literal data: 0 bytes > Matched data: 0 bytes > File list size: 510 > File list generation time: 0.032 seconds > File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds > Total bytes sent: 326 > Total bytes received: 1024 > sent 326 bytes received 1024 bytes 900.00 bytes/sec > total size is 6717 speedup is 4.98 > DoneGen: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 10 filesTotal, > 6717 sizeTotal, 0 filesNew, 0 sizeNew, 0 sizeNewComp, 30 inode > Xfer PIDs are now > Running BackupPC_refCountUpdate -h test7 on test7 > Xfer PIDs are now 10052 > BackupPC_refCountUpdate: doing fsck on test7 #0 (full) since $ConfRefCntFsck > == 1 > BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host test7 got 0 errors (took 0 secs) > Xfer PIDs are now > Finished BackupPC_refCountUpdate (running time: 0 sec) > Xfer PIDs are now > > All variations show the data folder in the backups and I don't see the > exclude files directive anywhere in the command line which is likely the > problem. 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