Re: [rdiff-backup-users] PATCH: Exclude if present

[Jeff Strunk]

I just checked to make sure, but your example only excludes files 
named .NOBACKUP . --exclude-if-present excludes the entire directory.

Example:
$ ls -a test1
.  ..  file1  test2  test4
$ ls -a test1/test2
.  ..  file1  .NOBACKUP  test3
$ /tmp/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP /tmp/test1 /tmp/backup_test
$ ls -a  backup_test
.  ..  file1  rdiff-backup-data  test2  test4
$ ls -a  backup_test/test2/
.  ..  file1  test3
$ /tmp/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude-if-present .NOBACKUP /tmp/test1 
/tmp/backup_test2
$ ls -a  backup_test2
.  ..  file1  rdiff-backup-data  test4

-Jeff

On Friday 16 March 2007 6:20 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> How similar to this is rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP ?
>
> -Eric
>
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, dean gaudet wrote:
> > excellent, i've wanted this feature... i'll apply it next time i'm
> > running through patches.  any chance you could do a 1.1.x port as well?
> >
> > thanks
> > -dean
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Jeff Strunk wrote:
> >> I have a small contribution to make in the form of a simple selection
> >> function.
> >>
> >> My company has found that we needed a way for users to say that
> >> particular directories shouldn't get backed up. The attached patch adds
> >> the --exclude-if-present option. It has been tested with 1.0.4 and
> >> 1.0.5.
> >>
> >> I documented it on the wiki at
> >> http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/ExcludeIfPresent .
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jeff Strunk
> >> IT Administrator
> >> Enthought, Inc.
> >
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