[SOLVED] proxmox-backup-client incl. mounted drives/partition and exclude specific folder

[danman]

Hey

I'm playing a little bit with the pbs on pve.

I have a laptop which has the following mount points:
1. /
2. /boot/
3. /home/

I would like to run one command as root to include every mount points. / has a .pxarexclude file so /home/dan/ has.
Separately it's working fine but trying to use the flag

--include-dev /home/dan/ --include-dev /boot/ --include-dev /

or

--all-file-systems

doesn't catch the .pxarexclude file of each mount points.

What am I missing here?

Thanks
Dan

 

[dcsapak]

can you post the complete commandline you use, as well as the pxarexclude files ?

 

[danman]

Hey

At the moment I'm using for each mount point this command:

proxmox-backup-client backup dan.pxar:/ --repository root@pam@192.168.50.176:8007:8tb --verbose --skip-lost-and-found

proxmox-backup-client backup dan.pxar:/home/dan/ --repository root@pam@192.168.50.176:8007:8tb --verbose --skip-lost-and-found

and I tried to add the flags above by using the first command.

pxarexclude for root:

# # <- is a comment
# ! <- Includes the filer/folder Example: !/root/
# \ <- Is used to escape special glob characters
# ? <- Matches any single character.
# * <- Matches any character, including an empty string
# ** <- Is used to match subdirectories. It can be used to, for example, exclude all files ending in .tmp within the directory or subdirectories with the following pattern **/*.tmp
# [...] matches a single character from any of the provided characters within the brackets. [!...] does the complementary and matches any single character not contained within the brackets.
#       It is also possible to specify ranges with two characters separated by -. For example, [a-z] matches any lowercase alphabetic character and [0-9] matches any one single digit.

/dev/*
/lib/*
/bin/*
/lib64/*
/sbin/*
/proc/*
/sys/*
/tmp/*
/run/*
/mnt/*
/media/*
/lost+found
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/*

# Testing
#/home/dan/.cache/*
#/home/dan/Desktop/*
#/home/dan//Downloads/*
#/home/dan//Documents/*
#/home/dan//Pictures/*
#/home/dan//.local/share/Trash/*
#/home/dan//.local/share/baloo/*
#/home/dan//.ccnet/*
#/home/dan//.cargo/*

and for my home:

/.cache/*
/Desktop/*
/Downloads/*
/Documents/*
/Pictures/*
/.local/share/Trash/*
/.local/share/baloo/*
/.ccnet/*
/.cargo/*

 

[dcsapak]

could you try the exclude files without the leading slash ? (e.g. instead of '/.cache/*' use '.cache/*' ) ?

 

[Fabian_E]

Hi,

could you try the exclude files without the leading slash ? (e.g. instead of '/.cache/*' use '.cache/*' ) ?

won't that exclude matches recursively (e.g. /other/path/.cache/file) ?

@danman could you also share the output of pveversion -v on PVE and proxmox-backup-manager versions on PBS?

 

[danman]

It worked now!

But I haven't tried the flag --all-file-systems.

I used this:

proxmox-backup-client backup dan.pxar:/ --repository root@pam@192.168.50.176:8007:8tb --verbose --skip-lost-and-found --include-dev / --include-dev /boot/ --include-dev /home/dan/

And .pxarexclude in / only.

Maybe it works because of this ...

@Fabian_E
I updated PVE and PBS to the newest version.