Re: [BackupPC-users] Syntax for excluding .gvfs

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On 5/7/2010 12:37 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> On Fri, 07 May 2010 12:17:14 -0500
> Les Mikesell<les...@gm...>  wrote:
>
>> On 5/7/2010 10:33 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote:
>>> On Fri, 7 May 2010 15:56:00 +0100
>>> Luis Paulo<lui...@gm...>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Allen<all...@ro...>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Richard et al;
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps I should have been more specific... This is included in my
>>>>> global configuration under RsyncArgs for rsync.
>>>>>
>>>>>      --exclude */.gvfs
>>>>>
>>>>> I never use BackupFilesExcludes for rsync.
>>>>>
>>>>>    Allen...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Allen
>>>>
>>>> To get the right syntax right is not easy, in my experience
>>>>
>>>> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_backupfilesexclude_
>>>> - don't really help much when it doesn't work :)
>>>>
>>>> I think the way you write it depends on the method you are using
>>>>
>>>> Now you said rsync, but in your first post it looks like tar.
>>>> Please clarify.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to use tar and as I said I'm trying to use the GUI
>>> inerface.
>>>
>>> */.gvfs didn't work either
>>
>> Did you mention the version you are using?  There is this bug report
>> for 3.0.x in debian:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=437451
>>
> I'm using BackupPC-3.1.0-9.fc11.noarch.
>
> The Debian bug looks similar but in my case even if I put in the full
> path name of the directory, /home/steve/.gvfs, I still get the same
> error.
>
> [steve@steve ~]$ ls -ld .gvfs
> dr-x------. 2 steve steve 0 2010-05-07 09:24 .gvfs

Don't forget that tar cd's into the path you give it as the share and 
uses '.' as its starting point to get relative paths.  So if you are 
backing up /home, tar is going to see ./steve/.gvfs as the path you want 
excluded.  Or if you start at '/', it will be ./home/steve/.gvfs, but 
backuppc is supposed to do this for you at least in most versions. See 
the section on $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} in
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html

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