[BackupPC-devel] Getting excludes right...

[Richard Shaw]

I'm trying to exclude .cache from all /home backups but can't quite seem to
get it right...

Right now out of desparation I'm trying:

Share name => "*"
Exclude => "/.cache"

I though that the "*" would match "/home/<user>" and then it would put it
together to be:

/home/<user>/.cache

But I just did an incremental backup and no luck...

Thanks,
Richard

[Richard Shaw]

Ok, getting a little closer... I changed the configuration to:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/home/*/.cache',
''
]
};

And ran the dump from the command line and got:

--exclude=/home/\*/.cache --exclude= <host>:/home/<user>/

It seemed to generate two excludes but the second one seems to be malformed
with the space after the = and I'm not sure it's even needed...

Thanks,
Richard

[Michael Stowe]

Post by Richard Shaw
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/home/*/.cache',
''
]
};
--exclude=/home/\*/.cache --exclude= <host>:/home/<user>/
It seemed to generate two excludes but the second one seems to be
malformed with the space after the = and I'm not sure it's even
needed...
Thanks,
Richard

... which begs the question, why did you include it? Why not just use
the first exclude, which seems perfectly valid, i.e.

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/home/*/.cache'
]
};

I'm genuinely baffled.

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[Craig Barratt]

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.

Craig

Post by Michael Stowe

Post by Richard Shaw
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/home/*/.cache',
''
]
};
--exclude=/home/\*/.cache --exclude= <host>:/home/<user>/
It seemed to generate two excludes but the second one seems to be
malformed with the space after the = and I'm not sure it's even
needed...
Thanks,
Richard

... which begs the question, why did you include it? Why not just use
the first exclude, which seems perfectly valid, i.e.
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/home/*/.cache'
]
};
I'm genuinely baffled.
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[Richard Shaw]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Craig Barratt <

Post by Craig Barratt
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

[Richard Shaw]

... which begs the question, why did you include it? Why not just use the
first exclude, which seems perfectly valid, i.e.
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/home/*/.cache'
]
};
I'm genuinely baffled.

For posterity I'll answer, since it stayed in the last incremental I
assumed it was not working.

Thanks,
Richard