Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.

2008-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
Gabriel Landais wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 05:36, Steve Blackwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Aahh!!! Thanks Holger. > > I had not understood the use of the hash key. I thought it was just > > a kind of group name for some excludes. > > Now everything is working as expected. > > > > Ste

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.

2008-08-05 Thread Gabriel Landais
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 05:36, Steve Blackwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aahh!!! Thanks Holger. > I had not understood the use of the hash key. I thought it was just a > kind of group name for some excludes. > Now everything is working as expected. > > Steve Hi, it is not greatly explained in d

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.

2008-08-04 Thread Steve Blackwell
> Hi, > > Steve Blackwell wrote on 2008-08-04 18:31:38 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] > Problems excluding files.]: >> [...] >> Id there something wrong with my $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} > > yes. > >> or do I need to add --exclude to TarIncrArgs? > > No.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.

2008-08-04 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Steve Blackwell wrote on 2008-08-04 18:31:38 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.]: > [...] > I have the following in my .pl file: > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > 'system' => [ > '/proc', > '/sys'

[BackupPC-users] Problems excluding files.

2008-08-04 Thread Steve Blackwell
The documentation for $Conf{TarClientCmd} says ... Also, you will probably want to add ``/proc'' to $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}. The following variables are substituted at run-time: ... $fileListspecific files to backup or exclude ... I took this to mean that $fileList takes care of excluding