Hi,
The IRC channel seems to be pretty much dead so I'm turning towards the
mailinglist for some advice. :)
One of the subdirectories of the main directory that needs to be backed
up hold hundreds of thousands of cached file that need no backup. I can
exclude them from being backed up with BackupFilesExclude, but that
doesn't stop rsync from iterating over it, adding hours to the backup
time.
I then tried adding --exclude=/my/cache/dir as RsyncArgsExtra since the
manual clearly states:
<snip>
Examples of additional arguments that should work are
--exclude/--include, eg:
$Conf{RsyncArgsExtra} = [
'--exclude', '/proc',
'--exclude', '*.tmp',
];
</snip>
However, no matter how I formulate my exclude, it never appears on the
actual rsync commandline. Adding -v for example gets shown just fine.
In the end, I digged into the code and found the following snippet in
/usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Xfer/Rsync.pm :
<snip>
eval {
$argList = File::RsyncP->excludeStrip($argList);
};
</snip>
--exclude seems to be stripped out in a hardcoded way. Then why does the
manual tell me otherwise?
Is there any non-hackish way to stop rsync from traversing the whole
cache subdirectory?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Kind regards,
Bart Verwilst
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