Re: [BackupPC-users] Behavior of BackupFilesExclude for rsync

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

Ian Levesque wrote:
> On May 12, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Ian Levesque wrote:
> 
>> I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently
>> added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which
>> has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this
>> directory, so I've added a BackupFilesExclude entry (i.e., /home/
>> username/directory) to my config. Sure enough, the directory is not
>> being backed up -- that's good. The only problem is that since I've
>> added this directory, backups are taking _very_ long; incrementals are
>> taking 3 days, where they used to take 10 hours. So my guess is that
>> the rsync is evaluating all of the directory's contents rather than
>> excluding en masse.
> 
> 
> FYI, running a full backup appears to have resolved the slow  
> incremental issue. I'm not entirely sure why that is, but I'm glad  
> things are back to normal. I saw this solution mentioned quite a bit  
> in the mailing list for people complaining about long backup times;  
> Perhaps a candidate for the FAQ?

Incrementals are normally based on the last previous full run. Check the 
documentation for:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_incrlevels_

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   Les Mikesell
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