--- /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm.orig 2012-12-20 11:33:39.833760364 -0500 +++ /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm 2012-12-20 11:33:54.173756937 -0500 @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ # # Promote BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude to hashes # - foreach my $param qw(BackupFilesOnly BackupFilesExclude) { + foreach my $param (qw(BackupFilesOnly BackupFilesExclude)) { next if ( !defined($conf->{$param}) || ref($conf->{$param}) eq "HASH" ); $conf->{$param} = [ $conf->{$param} ] if ( ref($conf->{$param}) ne "ARRAY" );