Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude list being ignored?

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Steven writes:

> We are running backuppc 2.1.2 on a debian 4 host, backing up other
> debian hosts.  Rsync version is 2.6.9  protocol version 29 on server and
> clients.
> 
> I've set up backuppc on other systems and never run into this issue, but
> whenever we run backups the $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} setting is
> completely ignored and everything is backed up.  Here's out backuppc config:

I'm a little suspicious of whether the sudo will cause a problem
with shell-meta characters - I'm not sure if an extra shell is
run by ssh in this case.

Try this:

 - Try removing the '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines...' excludes (the
   ones with meta characters)

 - Try replacing sudo with a full path:

    $Conf{RsyncClientCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x -l netbackup $host sudo...';

In each case, you can run the backup manually with the -v flag to
see what rsync command is run, and then hit ^C to abort after you
see whether the excludes are working or not.  Please post the rsync
command and whether it worked or not.

Craig