Re: [BackupPC-users] Complex include/excludes with rsync?

[Matthias M. <mat...@gm...>]

Brian Mathis wrote:

> I am running backups using the rsync transport method.  The docs on
> BackupFilesOnly indicate if this is used at all, then only the files
> listed there are backed up.  To me this implies that excludes are then
> ignored.  The docs on BackupFilesExclude warn that one can only
> specify BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude once for smb shares,
> which seems to contradict this.
> 
> I am trying to perform something like the following:
> exclude /home
> include /home/user/data
> 
> Is this possible without resorting to a custom rsync command line?  Am
> I missing something here where includes and excludes are applied in a
> certain order?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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I include directories by BackupFilesOnly and exclude other directories
by "exclude from = " within the rsyncd.conf.
But nevertheless your example above would not work. If you exclude /home you
can't include something among them.

br
Matthias
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