Re: [Burp-users] Include, exclude and a few mountpoints - can't configure it - SOLVED

[Graham K. <gr...@gr...>]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 07:58:53PM +0100, ma...@me... wrote:
> This logic is different than logic seen in other backup stuff so 
> sometimes I'm a little confused:) I prefer backup soft to not cross 
> filesystem mountpoints so further I assume that cross_all_filesystems=0. 
> Let's imagine such situation:
> 
> mountpoint is: /foo/bar , inside I've got such structure:
> /foo/bar/xx/yy/zz
> /foo/bar/aa/bb
> /foo/bar/cc/dd
> 
> and I would like to backup _only_ /foo/bar/xx/yy/zz , other dirs 
> shouldn't be backuped.
> I found that such configuration do want I expect:
> 
> include = / # I'd like to have also root partition in backup
> cross_filesystem = /foo/bar
> include = /foo/bar/xx/yy/zz
> exclude = /foo/bar/
> 
> it isn't hyper clean solution but works:) Graham, what do you think 
> maybe such case should be documented (if isn't yet - but I didn't find 
> similar information)?

I agree that it would be good to have a page that explains about this stuff.

> I'd like to ask about "nobackup" option and burp behavior. I can see 
> that burp doesn't do backup of dir if it finds "nobackup" file inside, 
> it's ok. But I'm wondering about keeping information about such dir in 
> backup, should be keept or not? Example:
> 
> I've got: /var/cache/man/CACHEDIR.TAG
> so files and dirs inside /var/cache/man are excluded from backup but 
> what about "/var/cache/man"? Maybe such dir (without subdirs and files) 
> should be keept to have archived owner and permission of mentioned dir?

Perhaps you are right about saving the directory stats, if it doesn't do that
already. I will think about it.

> I'd like to ask one more question, what is correct syntax for 
> "exclude_comp"?
> I tried "exclude_comp    = gz bz2 jpeg jpg avi gif png". I tried also:
> exclude_comp = xz
> and
> exclude_comp = .xz
> but burp still compresses compressed files.

Put them on multiple lines like this:

exclude_comp=bz2
exclude_comp=gz
exclude_comp=jpeg
exclude_comp=jpg
exclude_comp=avi
exclude_comp=gif
exclude_comp=png

If that still doesn't work, then there is a bug.