Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-29 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Arch Willingham wrote: I'm using Samba (SMB?). I have some Win-servers too, but I prefer rsyncd on them. Makes my entire BackupPC installation more uniform: Windows through rsyncd, Linux through rsync. Just my 2 cents :-) -- Toni Van Remortel Linux System Engineer @ Precision Operations NV

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-28 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Arch Willingham wrote on 27.10.2007 at 10:49:24 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work]: When all else fails, try em' all! I don't know which part fixed it but this ended up working: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '\\backup\\*' = [ '' ], that one is nonsense

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-27 Thread Arch Willingham
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Travis Fraser Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 8:05 PM To: BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:53 +0200, Toni Van Remortel wrote: Arch Willingham wrote: Even though

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-27 Thread Travis Fraser
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 10:49 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote: When all else fails, try em' all! I don't know which part fixed it but this ended up working: Maybe try eliminating them one at a time to see? Also, what transfer method are you using? $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '\\backup\\*'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-27 Thread Arch Willingham
:49 AM To: BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 10:49 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote: When all else fails, try em' all! I don't know which part fixed it but this ended up working: Maybe try eliminating them one

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-27 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Arch Willingham wrote: I'm using Samba (SMB?). The kicker is that when I change something, if I'm wrong, it bogs down trying to download 168GB from a directory I don't want. Can't you setup a dummy share for testing? Nils Breunese. PGP.sig Description: Dit deel van het bericht is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-27 Thread Arch Willingham
Oops...you are right! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 1:31 PM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work Arch Willingham wrote

[BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Arch Willingham
I am trying to exclude one directory on a windows share but nothing I have tried works. In short, I want to exclude c:\backup on a machine called PARKS. I have a custom config.pl for that computer. I set the exclude directory via the web address. The entry it made in PARKS.pl is:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Toni Van Remortel
Arch Willingham wrote: Even though the slashes go the other way in Windows Yes. It's a Unix system that is taking the backups, so you need to use the Unix way to address directories. So / is the separator, \ is just an escape character. -- Toni Van Remortel Linux System Engineer @

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread dan
you are specifying the directory incorrectly. instead of \\backup\\* it should be /backup/ On 10/26/07, Arch Willingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to exclude one directory on a windows share but nothing I have tried works. In short, I want to exclude c:\backup on a machine called

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Arch Willingham
Even though the slashes go the other way in Windows Arch -Original Message- From: dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:43 AM To: Arch Willingham Cc: BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't get excludes to work

2007-10-26 Thread Travis Fraser
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:53 +0200, Toni Van Remortel wrote: Arch Willingham wrote: Even though the slashes go the other way in Windows Yes. It's a Unix system that is taking the backups, so you need to use the Unix way to address directories. So / is the separator, \ is just an escape