Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --exclude problems

[Andrew Ferguson]

Hi Pete,

Your backup command line is backing up your /data directory to
address@hidden::/backup1/data_rdiff

Therefore, telling rdiff-backup to exclude the /sys directory is
unnecessary (it's not part of the /data directory), and probably not
what you want. This is what rdiff-backup is complaining about.

/data/xpbackup *is* part of the /data dir, so that --exclude makes sense.

If all of this sounds right to you, you can safely drop the "--exclude
/sys" option.

Andrew

Pete Dubler wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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