[K12OSN] OT- BackupPC excludes not working

[Bimal Pandit]

Dear Sir,

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Can someone suggest the proper syntax for getting excludes to work on my
BackupPC installation?  I want to exclude a certain folder from a user's
home directory.  Home is on a separate partition so it has it's own
entry in the BackupPC conf under share names.

I have this under rsync args:

         '--one-file-system',
         '--exclude=/var/spool/squid',
         '--exclude=slocated.db',
         '--exclude=/proc',           
         '--exclude=/home/ckeil/secret',
         '--exclude=/home/www/k12ltsp'   

and this under conf(backupfilesexclude) :
'/proc', '/var/spool/squid','slocate.db', '/home/ckeil/secret/*', 
'/home/www/k12ltsp/*';
why isn't this working.  I just noticed that I have the /* in one place
and not in the other, but I've tried it both ways in both places.  A
related question, how will I know this is working?  I'm assuming that
after the next incremental backup after I get this right then those
directories won't appear in the backups.  Is there a way to delete
backed up information from the backup server?

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here is my document,  "http://fedoranews.org/contributors/"
am sending as attachement for your kind reference in case it is not 
accessible.

regards,

Bimal


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