[rdiff-backup-users] --exclude problems

[Pete Dubler]

Recently leaped from RH8 to Fedora5 and my working rdiff-backups no longer work.  I am running from the fedora5 rpm 1.0.4  

Here is a sample command:

rdiff-backup --exclude /sys --exclude /data/xpbackup /data/ 
address@hidden::/backup1/data_rdiff

yields the following errors:

Fatal Error: Fatal Error: The file specification
   '/sys'
cannot match any files in the base directory
   '/data'
Useful file specifications begin with the base directory or some
pattern (such as '**') which matches the base directory.



Changing to /data instead of /data/ makes no difference.

--exclude-globbing-filelist myexcludelist  with the directories listed in 
myexcludelist also yields the same exact error messages?

The destination server is still running RH 8  and the the version of 
rdiff-backup there is: 1.0.4  (the same)

Any insights would be greatly appreciated as I am flying without a net without 
rdiff-backup running correctly.

Pete