[BackupPC-users] Problem with BackupFilesExclude

[Tony M. <ton...@ul...>]

Hi,

I'm backing up a file share from a Windows box using the smb transfer 
method. The problem is this share contains several very large log files 
which the administrator of the windows box doesn't rotate or truncate. So 
they are backed even when I do the nightly incremental backups.

I've tried to use BackupFilesExclude to exclude the files but I can't seem 
to get the syntax right or it's not working


My per host config file is:

    $Conf{XferMethod} = 'smb';

    $Conf{SmbShareName} = 'Plone 2';
    $Conf{SmbShareUserName} = 'WWW1\admin';
    $Conf{SmbSharePasswd} = 'xxxxxxxx';
    $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
        'Plone 2' => ['/Data/log/*', '/Data/var/*']
        };

So what I'm trying to do is backup the folder "Plone 2" but exclude the 
"Data/log" and "Data/var" subfolders.

Thanks in advance.

Tony

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Tony Molloy.

Dept. of Comp. Sci.
University of Limerick