I removed empty lines, and now at least I get an error:<div><br><div>WARN: unable to parse configuration file '/etc/vzdump.conf' - error at line 9</div><div><br></div><div>where the (only) non commented line 9 in /etc/vzdump.conf is</div>
<div>exclude-path: "/tmp/.+" "/home/httpd/www.mysite/html/var/ezwebin_site/cache/.+"<br><br>so I guess I should avoid empty lines? </div><div>(btw, there is an empty line on <a href="http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VZDump">http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VZDump</a>, too)</div>
<div><br></div><div>/francesco<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Francesco R <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francesco@opencontent.it">francesco@opencontent.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Yes, Dietmar, it's just one line of data + some comments (and some empty lines...;)<div><br></div><div>--- begin ---</div><div># comments...</div><div><br></div><div># comments...</div><div><br></div><div>exclude-path: “/tmp/.+” “/home/httpd/<a href="http://www.mysite.org/html/var/ezwebin_site/cache/.+" target="_blank">www.mysite.org/html/var/ezwebin_site/cache/.+</a>”<br>
<div>--- end ---</div></div><div><br></div><div>/francesco</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Dietmar Maurer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dietmar@proxmox.com" target="_blank">dietmar@proxmox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Please can you post the file /etc/vzdump.conf?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com" target="_blank">pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com" target="_blank">pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Francesco R<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sonntag, 15. April 2012 10:39<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pve-user@pve.proxmox.com" target="_blank">pve-user@pve.proxmox.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PVE-User] vzdump & exclude-path<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've tried Dietmar, thanks, but once again the exclude-path directive that you've suggested in /etc/vzdump.conf is ignored.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">don't know what do to...<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/francesco<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">p.s. yes, Luca, I'm backing up vz containers<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"># pveversion -v<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pve-manager: 1.9-26 (pve-manager/1.9/6567)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-55+ovzfix-1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-55+ovzfix-1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">qemu-server: 1.1-32<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pve-firmware: 1.0-14<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vncterm: 0.9-2<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vzctl: 3.0.29-3pve1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vzdump: 1.2-16<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">vzprocps: 2.0.11-2<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Dietmar Maurer <<a href="mailto:dietmar@proxmox.com" target="_blank">dietmar@proxmox.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You can only have one exclude-path config line, try:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">exclude-path: “/tmp/.+”
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">“/var/www/html/cache/.+”</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">- Dietmar</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com" target="_blank">pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com" target="_blank">pve-user-bounces@pve.proxmox.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Francesco R<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Dienstag, 10. April 2012 18:52<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pve-user@pve.proxmox.com" target="_blank">pve-user@pve.proxmox.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PVE-User] vzdump & exclude-path</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">we would like to exclude from the daily vzdump snapshots all unnecessary web cache content (tipically /var/www/*/html/*/cache), and /tmp content of course.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We've created /etc/vzdump.conf with <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">exclude-path: "/tmp/*"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">exclude-path: "/var/www/html/cache/*"<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">as stated in <a href="http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VZDump" target="_blank">http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VZDump</a>, but its content does not effect the daily backups (compressed snapshots)
added through the web interface.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are we trying to do something that makes sense? or the only way is to manually create custom cron backups with "vzdump --exclude-path ..."?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">thanks<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/francesco ronzon<u></u><u></u></p>
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