Re: [BackupPC-users] file exclude not working

2010-06-28 Thread Ryan Manikowski
On 6/27/2010 4:47 PM, Sri Rao wrote: Hi, I am new to backuppc. I have setup the server and it is backing things okay except in one instance. I am trying to backup a machine specifying multiple sharenames. For one of the shares I want to exclude some subdirs from being backed up. I am

Re: [BackupPC-users] file exclude not working

2010-06-28 Thread Sri Rao
Thanks Ryan. I will try that but wondering why the BackupFilesExcludehttps://backuppc.cloudflare.com/backuppc/index.cgi?action=viewtype=docs#item__conf_backupfilesexclude_is not working. I would think that it would either add the --exclude args to the list or from what it seems to be doing

Re: [BackupPC-users] file exclude not working

2010-06-28 Thread Sri Rao
So I believe I have figured it out. Seems rsync does relative filtering from the root directory that you are copying from. Here is the little blurb from the rsync man: o if the pattern starts with a / then it is anchored to a particu- lar spot in the hierarchy of

[BackupPC-users] file exclude not working

2010-06-27 Thread Sri Rao
Hi, I am new to backuppc. I have setup the server and it is backing things okay except in one instance. I am trying to backup a machine specifying multiple sharenames. For one of the shares I want to exclude some subdirs from being backed up. I am using the rsync method. For some reason it