Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Not excluding all paths in exclude file?

[J. Norment]

I am using the same version as you.

I haven't had time to run the tests that you suggest.  I did notice 
after reading the documentation for the hundredth time, that it does say 
that command line include directives and file include directives are not 
processed the same -- and it appears that include-file-globbing 
directives are processed the same... but it is difficult for me to 
discern exactly what I should be telling it to do in order to skip the 
entire tree under a path...

I'm also stuck in that I don't know how to reset the backup... wiping 
out the whole path (including all the data backed up) seems like it 
would work --- but I remember it failing somehow...

How do you reset the backup so that it backs up as if it is backing up 
for the first time?



Mike Bydalek wrote:

> J. Norment wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm having difficulties getting rdiff-backup to properly ignore a path
> > when doing a backup.  I've got it ignoring one path in the excludes
> > file, but not the following path ... which has me pretty confused. 
> > Does the following output look sane?  (Any help is greatly appreciated!!)
> >    
>
> I am having a similar problem which may be related.  In my situation, I
> want to backup /usr/directory but not /usr/directory/temp.  When I
> --include /usr/directory and then --exclude /usr/directory/temp, the
> include overrides the exclude.
>
>  
>
> > address@hidden backup-repo] cat
> > /home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo/rdiff-excludes
> >
> > /home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo/rdiff-repo
> > /home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo/files
> > /home/shares/share.ppsi/no.backup
> > /home/shares/music
> >
> >
> >    
>
> What about the /home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo directories?  Do
> both rdiff-repo and files get skipped?  What if you create another
> directory in /home/shares/share.ppsi and exclude that as well?
>
> The way I have my setup is opposite as yours, so I'm curious if there is
> a big problem here or not.  I'll also do some testing if I have time to
> see what happens.
>
> Also, what version are you using?  I'm running 1.0.4 on all my servers.
>
> -Mike
>