Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude file problem

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David Smith writes:

> I'd like to configure BackupPC to exclude certain movie and audio files, 
> so I've set this in config.pl:
> 
>     $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>         'd' => ['*.mpeg', '*.mpg', '*.mov', '*.mp3', '*.ogg', '*.avi'],
>         'test' => ['*.mpeg', '*.mpg', '*.avi' ]
>     };
> 
> If I understand the commentary provided in config.pl, this should be 
> valid to exclude any files whose names end in mpeg, mpg, mov, etc. 
> However, these files are not excluded from the backup as I can still see 
> them appearing in the pc/hostname/new/ directory during the backup. I am 
> using smb to transfer files. My share name looks like this:
> 
>     $Conf{SmbShareName} = 'test';
> 
> Dr. Google has not been forthcoming on a solution. Am I doing something 
> wrong? Do you need more information? Thanks in advance.

smbclient only handles a single exclude file.  There is a patch
that makes it handle multiple excludes:

    https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389

Craig