Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-11-18 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Alex Machina wrote on 2011-11-17 20:51:46 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync]: Why bother with: $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {  '/home' = [        '/steve/Packages'   ] }; Why not just: $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/home/steve/Packages'] because

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-11-17 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Mark Maciolek wrote on 2011-10-27 07:54:26 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync]: On 10/26/2011 8:49 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below. Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-11-17 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:08:23AM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote: Actually, it's $Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = { '/home' = [ '/steve/Packages' ] }; presuming you *only* want to exclude /home/steve/Packages and not [...] Thanks -- that is indeed what I wanted. -Steve

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-10-27 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/26 07:49 , Steve M. Robbins wrote: I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below. This isn't really a proper answer to your question; but have you considered using tar for your backup of localhost? I've found that tar is faster for some types of transfers (where

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Maciolek
On 10/26/2011 8:49 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hi, I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below. Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup. I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result. What's the magic? # # Local server

Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-10-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:49:48PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below. Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup. I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result. What's the magic? Well,

[BackupPC-users] Exclusion not working with rsync

2011-10-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below. Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup. I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result. What's the magic? # # Local server backup of /etc as user backuppc # $Conf{XferMethod} =