From: Jon F. <jlf...@be...> - 2007-12-05 23:11:10
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Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Jon Forrest wrote: > >> Also, I read the documentation and learned that if the smb >> transport is being used, there are rules about what happens >> if both BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude and specified. >> Why do these rules only apply when smb is used, and not >> when rsync is used? > > This is explained in the documentation: > <http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupfilesexclude_>. > The options are directly passed to the transfer program you're using and > smb, tar and rsync happen to use different include/exclude mechanisms. Thanks for replying. No doubt, but I was thinking that BackupPC would pass the appropriate arguments to the transport mechanism since each one is implemented in its own Perl module. In any case, the only mention of rsync in that section you mention has to do with specifying --one-file-system. I don't think that's relevant in my case because I'm not complaining about /proc being backed up. > I'm sure it works, there must be some error in your settings. Could you > maybe post your BackupFilesExclude and BackupFilesOnly settings? Sure. In /etc/BackupPC/config.pl $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = {}; $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {}; In /etc/BackupPC/pc/client.pl $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = { '/etc/namedb' => [ '' ], '/etc/named.conf' => [ '' ] }; The only other thing I can think of is that my "share" name is "/" but even so, I would expect BackupFilesOnly to do its trick. (I'm not sure what "share" really means when backing up Unix systems). Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Unix Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlf...@be... |