Exclude directories from rear backup and restore

[msoupramanien]

Hi,

I have "/opt" as a mounted filesystem. I would like to exclude ONLY directory "/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.33" underneath it from rear backup & recovery. Could you please suggest me what would be the correct EXCLUDE option to use.

Regards,

[gdha]

You could add the following line to /etc/rear/local.conf:

EXCLUDE_BACKUP=( ${EXCLUDE_BACKUP[@]} /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.33 )

[msoupramanien]

Thanks. Will try it out.

[gdha]

@msoupramanien did it work?

[attiqmscs004]

@msoupramanien did it work?

No it did not work. Although it is printing in logs that it is excluding the logs. But still on backup system all files and directories are present.

2018-11-08 13:33:29.276172059 Exclude list:
2018-11-08 13:33:29.311853451 /tmp/*
2018-11-08 13:33:29.346884726 /dev/shm/*
2018-11-08 13:33:29.381172888 /home/attiq.rehman/*
2018-11-08 13:33:29.430461132 /home/attiq/centos7.iso

But on destination host all files are present

[jsmeix]

@attiqmscs004
to include or exclude only specific stuff and disable ReaR's automatisms
what gets included and excluded it should help to use the config variables
BACKUP_ONLY_INCLUDE and BACKUP_ONLY_EXCLUDE
that exist in recent ReaR versions (I think since version 2.00)
check your usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf whether or not
BACKUP_ONLY_INCLUDE and BACKUP_ONLY_EXCLUDE
are described therein.

Note that BACKUP_ONLY_INCLUDE and BACKUP_ONLY_EXCLUDE
only work for ReaR's internal backup method (usually 'tar')
see usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf
but not for external backup solutions, cf.
"Relax-and-Recover versus backup and restore" at
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery

[gdha]

@msoupramanien Thanks for the feedback. Ok, Try the following that works for me (albeit for other directories):
BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE=( ${BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE[@]} '/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.33/*' )