Re: [flexbackup-help] Exclude certain files

[Ajay S. <ss...@am...>]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 19:11, Edwin Huffstutler wrote:
> [ Stefan Nicolin wrote: ]
> > with flexbackup 1.2.0 is there a way to exclude certain files? So far I
> > understand it, pruning works only or directorys.
> 
> True; the prune is meant for whole subtrees.
> 
> You could craft an exclude regular expression to hit only certain files. 
> (the $exclude_expr array)

This might be a different problem altogether but it's kinda similar. 
I'm trying to backup windows share that I have mounted locally on the
backup server using samba.  And I'm just grabbing the main drives:  C$,
D$, F$, etc...  And it will always fail on pagefile.sys because it's
"busy".  Is there a way to tell flexbackup to ignore that file?  Here's
what I have in exclude_expr:

$exclude_expr[0] = '.*/[Cc]ache/.*';
$exclude_expr[1] = '.*~$';
$exclude_expr[2] = '.*pagefile\.sys.*';
$exclude_expr[3] = '.*PAGEFILE\.SYS.*';

And the output from a typical flexbackup session:

flexbackup version 1.2.0 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net)
/etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK

|------------------------------------------------------------
| Checking 'buffer' on this machine... Ok
| Checking /bin/sh on this machine... bash2
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Doing level 1 backup of set server3 using tar
| Backup set server3 (/mnt/server3_c /mnt/server3_d /mnt/server3_f
/mnt/server3_i)
|------------------------------------------------------------
| Backup of: /mnt/server3_c
| Date of this level 1 backup: Fri Jan 23 03:37:57 2004
| Date of last level 0 backup: Sun Jan 18 06:56:00 2004
|------------------------------------------------------------
| cd "/mnt/server3_c" && sudo find . -regex "\./\(WINNT\)/.*" -prune -o
! \
|   -type s \( -newer "/backup/flex/lib/mnt-server3_c.0" -or -cnewer \
|   "/backup/flex/lib/mnt-server3_c.0" \) ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! \
|   -regex ".*~"$ ! -regex ".*pagefile\.sys.*" ! -regex
".*PAGEFILE\.SYS.*" \
|   -print0 | sudo tar --create --null --files-from=-
--ignore-failed-read \
|   --same-permissions --no-recursion --totals --sparse --file - | gzip
-4 \
|   | buffer -m 20m -p 75 -t -o \
|   "/backup/flex/data/mnt-server3_c.1.200401230337.tar.gz"
|------------------------------------------------------------
find: ./pagefile.sys: Text file busy
Total bytes written: 40960 (40kB, 1.9kB/s)
Kilobytes Out 5

ERROR from backup, exiting
offending command(s):
cd "/mnt/server3_c" && sudo find . -regex "\./\(WINNT\)/.*" -prune -o !
-type s \( -newer "/backup/flex/lib/mnt-server3_c.0" -or -cnewer
"/backup/flex/lib/mnt-server3_c.0" \) ! -regex ".*/[Cc]ache/.*" ! -regex
".*~"$ ! -regex ".*pagefile\.sys.*" ! -regex ".*PAGEFILE\.SYS.*" -print0
| sudo tar --create --null --files-from=- --ignore-failed-read
--same-permissions --no-recursion --totals --sparse --file - | gzip -4 |
buffer -m 20m -p 75 -t -o
"/backup/flex/data/mnt-server3_c.1.200401230337.tar.gz"

Thanks!
Ajay