Linux Volume Privacy Options

Macintosh and Windows clients offer a Privacy tab in the Retrospect Client interface for excluding volumes and folders from the backup. This exclusion hides the data from the backup server and skips the data during volume scans.

The Linux Client offers a different method for exclusions by using an exclusion file.

/etc/retroclient.excludes

The install script creates the above file. Details from our man page is:

# Retrospect Client retroclient.excludes file
#
# Contact Information
#
# Retrospect, Inc.
# Pleasanton, CA
# http://www.retrospect.com
#
# (C) 2011-2018 Retrospect, Inc. Portions (C) 1989-2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.
#
# Use this file with the retrocpl -exclude option to prevent files and directories
# from being backed up by Retrospect.
#
# Example: Uncomment the following two lines to exclude the /root directory and the
# /etc/passwd file from backup when the retrocpl -exclude state is 'on'

#/root
#/etc/passwd

The install script also installs the man pages for retrocpl and retroclient. To view the man page, use the following command:

man retrocpl