[Box Backup] Windows Exclude Dir

Ben Summers boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Mon Apr 4 08:52:30 BST 2005


On 4 Apr 2005, at 04:07, Chris Hane wrote:

> I have the following backup location:
>
> BackupLocations
> {
>       data
> 	{
>                 Path = C:\Data\
> 		ExcludeDir = C:\Data\music
> 		ExcludeDir = C:\Data\mysql
> 		ExcludeDir = C:\Data\Download
> 		ExcludeDir = C:\Data\Eudora
> 	}
> }
>
> I just looked at my data on the backup server and everything in the 
> C:\Data\music directory is being backup ed.  Did I miss something?
>
> Is the ExcludeDir command case sensitive?  Altough, I have the correct 
> case so I'm not sure that's the problem.
>
> Thoughts as to why this directory is being backup ed?
>
> Client: Windows XP (boxbackup v0.09fWin32 as reported by bbackupquery)
> Server: Linux (boxbackup latest)

Try removing the last \ from the Path ? It has to match on the entire 
thing, and if it's not doing it quite right then you'll get problems.

Nick -- I assume you changed the directory separator to \ from / ? If 
not, then that will be a problem too.

Ben




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