Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, itismike wrote on 2011-01-18 09:51:05 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /]: > [...] > I don't intend to sound terse toward those reaching out to help me; only > point out that any newcomer to this program is going to hit this same wall > every

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/18/2011 11:13 AM, itismike wrote: > Interesting. I was wondering why the GUI shifted the fields to the right when > I entered a directory name. So you're saying the syntax should look like > this?: > $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { > '/' => [ > '/home/michael/' > ] > }; > > I don't need to mess

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/18/2011 10:58 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Devs: Would it make sense for the GUI to generate a warning message of > some sort when the keyname does not match a share name or when there is > a keyname with nothing specified for it? It also might be more intuitive to say 'Specify Sharename' ins

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2011-01-18 Thread itismike
Interesting. I was wondering why the GUI shifted the fields to the right when I entered a directory name. So you're saying the syntax should look like this?: $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { '/' => [ '/home/michael/' ] }; I don't need to mess with RsyncShareName, right? That being said, if entering my

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/18/2011 10:42 AM, itismike wrote: > sorry for the double-post. The forums have been having a lot of trouble this > weekend. Curtis says he's aware of it and is in the process of migrating to a > new server. Most of the people who are likely to answer your postings are on the backuppc email

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/18/2011 10:40 AM, itismike wrote: > @Les: The 'very wrong' syntax I posted is what was auto-generated when I > added my target directory ("/home/michael/") using the CGI. But if you're not > a fan of the web interface, these examples are taken directly from the > config.pl file: > Examples:

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/18/2011 11:39 AM, itismike wrote: > @Les: The 'very wrong' syntax I posted is what was auto-generated when I > added my target directory ("/home/michael/") using the CGI. But if you're not > a fan of the web interface, these examples are taken directly from the > config.pl file: > Examples:

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2011-01-18 Thread itismike
sorry for the double-post. The forums have been having a lot of trouble this weekend. Curtis says he's aware of it and is in the process of migrating to a new server. +-- |This was sent by itism...@gmail.com via Backup Central.

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2011-01-18 Thread itismike
@Les: The 'very wrong' syntax I posted is what was auto-generated when I added my target directory ("/home/michael/") using the CGI. But if you're not a fan of the web interface, these examples are taken directly from the config.pl file: Examples: #$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/myFiles'; #$C

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2011-01-18 Thread itismike
@Les: The 'very wrong' syntax I posted is what was auto-generated when I added my target directory ("/home/michael/") using the CGI. But if you're not a fan of the web interface, these examples are taken directly from the config.pl file: Examples: #$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/myFiles'; #$C

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 1/18/2011 9:51 AM, itismike wrote: > > Normally you would only use the sharenames as the starting points of what you > want to back up and it defaults to including everything. It doesn't make much > sense to tell the client to walk the whole directory tree when you only want a > specific di

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/18/2011 8:51 AM, itismike wrote: > > Normally you would only use the sharenames as the starting points of what you > want to back up and it defaults to including everything. It doesn't make much > sense to tell the client to walk the whole directory tree when you only want a > specific di

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2011-01-18 Thread itismike
Normally you would only use the sharenames as the starting points of what you want to back up and it defaults to including everything. It doesn't make much sense to tell the client to walk the whole directory tree when you only want a specific directory. But the way it is used depends somewhat

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/18/11 7:29 AM, itismike wrote: > > You probably still have set > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/']; > > What you want instead is > $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/home/michael/']; > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {'/home/michael' => ['.Private']}; > > That's just a guess as I ran into something simi

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2011-01-18 Thread itismike
You probably still have set $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/']; What you want instead is $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['/home/michael/']; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {'/home/michael' => ['.Private']}; That's just a guess as I ran into something similiar... Regards Daniel Thanks Daniel, I can g

Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc ignores value of BackupFilesOnly; archives entire /

2011-01-18 Thread Daniel Mueller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 18.01.2011 08:10, schrieb itismike: > I've used the GUI to specify that only files in my home folder are backed up > (excluding the ~/.Private folder since that contains only encrypted files.) > This results in the following entry in the client-sp