Re: [BackupPC-devel] Getting excludes right...

[Richard S. <hob...@gm...>]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Craig Barratt <
cba...@us...> wrote:

> In addition to getting the exclude settings right, in 4.x if you add an
> exclude for an already backed-up file or directory, the file or directory
> won't be backed up (correct), but won't get deleted on the server, so it
> will be still be visible in the most recent filled/full backup (incorrect).
>
> If that's an issue you have, you can add the --delete-excluded option to
> $Conf{RsyncArgs} to fix this.  I pushed that change to git in a few days
> ago and it will be in 4.1.2.
>

Ok, I'm not out of disk space or anything so I'm not worried about killing
it off retroactively but I was kinda using the last incremental to tell if
the excludes worked correctly.

Thanks,
Richard