exclude folders with vzdump

[beyondx]

Hi everyone,

first of all I hope this is the correct location to post the following issue concerning vzdump.

I´m using the newest version to backup my virtual machines, which works smoothly. However I just cannot exclude folders or I am using the totally wrong syntax.
As I could read from the manual I need to use REGEX to exclude folders or files.
How do I exclude the subfolders (and files) of
/var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue ?
I tried several ways but always failed.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards

Norman

 

[dietmar]

--exclude-path '/var/spool/mqueue'
--exclude-path '/var/spool/clientmqueue'

should do the job

- Dietmar

 

[jonwatson]

Hi,

I can't get this to work. I am trying to exclude the home dir of VE 9999. I am using

vzdump --suspend --dumpdir `pwd` --exclude-path '/home' 9999

but it continues to back up the home dir. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Jon

 

[dietmar]

I can't reproduce that problem. What version do you use?

- Dietmar

 

[jonwatson]

Actually, it does work. I was using a patched version of vzdump which apparently breaks this functionality.

Thanks