[Box Backup] Windows Exclude Dir

[Chris Hane]

I removed the trailing \ from the Path=C:\Data\

However the c:\data\music directory is not being removed from the backup 
store.  When I use bbackupquery (from the windows command prompt), I can 
cd to the directory and ls it's contents on the backup server.

Question: how long should I want before I can expect the directory to be 
removed.

Also, I am running this on a laptop so bbackupd is not running on the 
client 24x7.  It is on for roughly 6-8 hours at a time.  And I have been 
running the with the new configuration for over 6 hours without seeing 
any of the files in ..\music deleted.

I would turn on extended logging; but there is a ton of it on the server 
and/or client.  If there is something I should be looking for in the 
extended logging I can turn it on.  Jet let me know what to look for.

In case it makes a difference, the directory I am backing up (c:\data) 
is over 10GB with ~9000 files.  Could that make a difference in the time 
it takes to see the music directory removed from the backup?

Chris....

Ben Summers wrote:

>
> 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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