[BackupPC-users] Exclude from backup

[Vladislav Tchernev]

Hi All,
I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files
from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting
Xfer->BackupFilesExclude and Xfer->RsyncArgs (--exclude="..."), as well as
directly editing the conf files (the global and the host specific ones) but
without success. What I have tried to do is to exclude /proc but it seems I
can't manage to get rid of it since the error log keeps complining about it.
Bellow are some settings (I ended setting thouse directly in the config.pl) I
have tried.

FYI: Am using backuppc-3.1.0-3 on Ubuntu 8.10

Thanks for your helps!
Vlad

#1
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude="/proc"'

#2
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude', '/proc'

#3
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc' => ['/*']
};

#3
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc' => ['./*']
}

#4
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc/' => ['*']
};

#4
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc/' => ['']
};

Thanks!
Vlad

[Mark Maciolek]

hi,

Should look more like this:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/tmp',
'/proc'
]
};

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
Hi All,
I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files
from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting
Xfer->BackupFilesExclude and Xfer->RsyncArgs (--exclude="..."), as well as
directly editing the conf files (the global and the host specific ones) but
without success. What I have tried to do is to exclude /proc but it seems I
can't manage to get rid of it since the error log keeps complining about it.
Bellow are some settings (I ended setting thouse directly in the config.pl) I
have tried.
FYI: Am using backuppc-3.1.0-3 on Ubuntu 8.10
Thanks for your helps!
Vlad
#1
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude="/proc"'
#2
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude', '/proc'
#3
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc' => ['/*']
};
#3
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc' => ['./*']
}
#4
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc/' => ['*']
};
#4
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc/' => ['']
};
Thanks!
Vlad
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[Adam Goryachev]

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
Hi All,
I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files
from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting
Xfer->BackupFilesExclude and Xfer->RsyncArgs (--exclude="..."), as well as
directly editing the conf files (the global and the host specific ones) but
without success. What I have tried to do is to exclude /proc but it seems I
can't manage to get rid of it since the error log keeps complining about it.
Bellow are some settings (I ended setting thouse directly in the config.pl) I
have tried.
FYI: Am using backuppc-3.1.0-3 on Ubuntu 8.10
Thanks for your helps!
Vlad
#1
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude="/proc"'

Check the man page, but I use the flag like --one-file-system so that
it won't backup any mounted dir...

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
#3
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc' => ['/*']
};

Try:

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => ['/proc']
};

The syntax says where I put the * you should specify the sharename, or
* to match all.
Where I put /proc is a list of path names to exclude.


Hope that helps...

Regards,
Adam

[Les Mikesell]

Post by Vladislav Tchernev

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
Hi All,
I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files
from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting
Xfer->BackupFilesExclude and Xfer->RsyncArgs (--exclude="..."), as

well as

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
directly editing the conf files (the global and the host specific ones)

but

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
without success. What I have tried to do is to exclude /proc but it

seems I

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
can't manage to get rid of it since the error log keeps complining

about it.

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
Bellow are some settings (I ended setting thouse directly in the

config.pl) I

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
have tried.
FYI: Am using backuppc-3.1.0-3 on Ubuntu 8.10
Thanks for your helps!
Vlad
#1
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude="/proc"'

Check the man page, but I use the flag like --one-file-system so that
it won't backup any mounted dir...

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
#3
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc' => ['/*']
};

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => ['/proc']
};
The syntax says where I put the * you should specify the sharename, or
* to match all.
Where I put /proc is a list of path names to exclude.

Or for a more drastic approach, add --one-file-system to the RsyncArgs
list, which will exclude all mount points. I do that because I
frequently have DVDs or NFS mounts in random places that I don't want to
have backed up. But, then you must be very careful to add share
entries for all of the mounted file systems that you do want, and
remember that if you add more later.

[Holger Parplies]

Hi,

[...] What I have tried to do is to exclude /proc but it seems I
can't manage to get rid of it since the error log keeps complining about it.
Bellow are some settings (I ended setting thouse directly in the config.pl) I
have tried.
[...]
#1
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude="/proc"'
#2
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude', '/proc'

I'm not sure why those shouldn't work (presuming you are using XferMethod
rsync or rsyncd, that is!), but it's not the intended way.

#3
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc' => ['/*']
};

Try

$Conf {BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/' => [ '/proc' ],
};

(presuming your ShareName really is '/', which is probably the case but may
not be if you are using rsyncd or are trying to exclude a proc filesystem
mounted in a chroot environment, for example). If you need more detailed
information, please tell us which XferMethod and which ShareName(s) you are
using. Have you perhaps got proc mounted more than once?

Regards,
Holger

[Vladislav Tchernev]

Thank you guys for your feedback. FYI the "XferMethod" I am using is rsync and
the suggested config listed bellow is working. Apparently, one have to
specify a share(s) in "RsyncShareName" and use it in "BackupFilesExclude" to
specify what exactly to be excluded under that share.

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'*' => [
'/proc',
'/sys'
]
};


Best regrads
Vlad

Post by Vladislav Tchernev
Hi All,
I am new to backuppc and was trying to figure out how to exclude dir/files
from a backup. I have played around with the GUI, setting
Xfer->BackupFilesExclude and Xfer->RsyncArgs (--exclude="..."), as well
as directly editing the conf files (the global and the host specific ones)
but without success. What I have tried to do is to exclude /proc but it
seems I can't manage to get rid of it since the error log keeps complining
about it. Bellow are some settings (I ended setting thouse directly in the
config.pl) I have tried.
FYI: Am using backuppc-3.1.0-3 on Ubuntu 8.10
Thanks for your helps!
Vlad
#1
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude="/proc"'
#2
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
'--numeric-ids',
'--perms',
'--owner',
'--group',
'-D',
'--links',
'--hard-links',
'--times',
'--block-size=2048',
'--recursive',
'--exclude', '/proc'
#3
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc' => ['/*']
};
#3
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc' => ['./*']
}
#4
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc/' => ['*']
};
#4
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
'/proc/' => ['']
};
Thanks!
Vlad
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