[Box Backup] Windows Exclude Dir

[Ben Summers]

Are the files on the server marked for deletion? ('X' flag shown in 
listing)

Is so, then it's worked, and the files will be removed when the soft 
limit is exceeded. To force removal, temporarily set the soft limit to 
a very small amount, and wait for housekeeping to complete.

Ben


On 7 Apr 2005, at 03:46, Chris Hane wrote:

> 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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