Richard's suggestion for excludes did not work for me:
backuppc was not excluding my files. Dieter's suggestion for excludes
is working for me. I'm getting excludes and includes and not getting a
bunch of empty folders in the backup. My host config looks like this:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' =>[ '**/Thecus Audio',
'**/incremental-backup', '**/Wordpress_Backup',
'**/NAS_Module_Source_', '**/FM_and_Computer_Backups', '**/USBCopy',
'**/_Module_Folder_', '**/eSATAHDD', '**/USBHDD', '**/NAS_Public',
'**/Time%20Machine', '**/_NAS_Picture', '**/iTunes_music' ]};
However, based on googling rsync discussions, I'm betting that it will
work without the ** in front of the / For example, from the web:
A user running rsync had his entire source directory in an exclude.txt
file:
rsync -Paz --exclude-from 'rsync-exclude.txt' /home/chris/ [email protected]
8.1.65:LinuxHome
where rsync-exclude.txt has this
content:
/home/chris/Downloads/*
/home/chris/Downloads/
/home/chris/Downloads/*.*
The response was:59down
voteaccepted
The problem is
that you are specifying complete
directory
paths.
With rsync, all
exclude (or include) paths beginning
with / are
are anchored to the root of
transfer. The root of transfer in
this case is /home/chris.
But since you're
just trying to sync your home directory,
and there is no subDdirectory
of /home/chris named home/chris/Downloads,
it ignores your exclusion.
Try removing the /home/chris parts
from your rsync-exclude.txt file.
Similarly, I'm amazed that Dieter's suggestion of **/ is working.
But I don't want to rock the boat and will try differently on the next
machine I set up to back up.
Best wishes,
Bob
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