Maser Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 (edited) So, maybe I'm doing it wrong, but... Say I want to *not* backup a folder on my client: Specifically: /users/maser/security Do I say "Folder Mac Path is /users/maser/security/ or "Folder *name* is /users/maser/security/" (and I'm putting this in the "exclude" section...) Edited April 13, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Folder Name should not be a path, just the name of the folder itself. If you want to exclude a path, then use the path type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Same for Windows clients, then, too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 OK. I'm doing something wrong... In Retrospect 6, I could make a selector that said: path name exactly matches Users//Movies/ (where is explicit like "bob" or "steve") How do I duplicate that statement in a Retrospect 8 rule? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Use "is" instead of "exactly matches" Did you see this thread: http://forums.dantz.com/showtopic.php?tid/30161/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Yes, that didn't help... should it say: Folder Mac Path is /users/maser/security If I want to exclude /users/maser/security ? I can do "Folder name is "iTunes Music"" to exclude that, but I'm looking to exclude a single directory on a single client. I'm clearly missing something very obvious... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 (edited) I think either: 1) My rule is corrupt 2) The "folder Mac Path" is no longer working. Argh. If you can be extremely explicit as to what I should be putting in to block /users/maser/security I will try that. And (if it matters), I'm only backing up my "Users" folder as a Favorite folder. I'm either missing the exact syntax, or it's not working. Edited April 13, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Oh, man, this is messed up. Please see the off-line e-mail I sent you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 Yes, we sent your email to engineering for some direct feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 (edited) Please let me know what they say ASAP. I added a bunch of specific clients where I only expected to backup about 8-10G per machine, but they are looking to backup 35-80G of stuff because their "Movies" and "Pictures" folders aren't being excluded as I'm expecting. If you need a copy of my config80.dat file (to see if it's corrupt) -- and either it's corrupt or the program is crapping out on my rule for some reason, let me know. Edited April 13, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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