RE: [BackupPC-users] Wild cards in BackupFilesOnly

[Dennis H. <dhe...@ad...>]

First, thanks for all the replies. I don't want to change the locations of
the My Documents folder because we have quite a few PC's to backup (~140).
The Windows admins plan to move the user's personal info to a network server
and let it replicate back for laptop users. Sounds reasonable, but it's
gonna take a long time to do that. Right now, we use a barely functional
commercial app installed on each PC. Many issues with it, having a backup
system that pulls the files off would be great.

Perhaps I'm approaching this wrong. If I backup the entire Documents and
Settings dir, I get what I want, but a lot of useless files also. Is there
an easy way to make a global exclude list so the server throws away the temp
and cookie files. It seems a huge waste to store them, and visually clutters
the restore pages. I'd like to be able to discard the entire "Local
Settings" directories with a single entry in a config file. Is that
possible?

Dennis

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Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 1:46 AM
To: Dennis Heltzel
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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Wild cards in BackupFilesOnly 


Dennis Heltzel writes:

> I want to do this:
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = '/Documents and Settings/*/My Documents';
> 
> But of course, it doesn't like the '*'. I want to backup the My Documents
> dir for all users on the client system, without having to maintain the
list
> manually.

Yes, you're right.  Smbclient doesn't expand these kinds of wild cards.
If instead you used rsync on your target machine then you would have
much finer control over what to backup.

> BTW, this is a really impressive package. I did find out it doesn't play
> nice with Samba 3.0, in case anyone else is tempted to try that combo.

The latest BackupPC release, 2.0.2, should work with the latest samba
3.0.0 (the first official 3.x release).  Earlier Samba 3.0.0 beta and
rc versions don't work correctly.

Craig