Re: [rdiff-backup-users] KeyError exception

[Austin Clements]

Quoth Andrew Ferguson on Jan 18 at  4:03 am:
> Well, because changing:
> 
> --include /tmp/lotsoffiles \
> --exclude /
> localhost::/ localhost::/tmp/lotsoffiles-backup
> 
> to
> 
> localhost::/tmp/lotsoffiles localhost::/tmp/lotsoffiles-backup
> 
> fixes it for me. Thus, I am curious if some other file is being included
> besides the stuff in /tmp/lotsoffiles.

I don't think so.  If I set the verbosity to 8, here's what I get
after it tells me about the abilities of the destination file system.

Processing changed file .
Processing changed file tmp
Making directory /tmp/lotsoffiles-backup/tmp
Sending back exception 'tmp' of type exceptions.KeyError: 
...

Given that it works with explicit paths and not with include/exclude,
does the way it traverses paths differ between the two approaches in
some important way?  Or perhaps differ somehow between a remote source
and a remote destination in a way that would show up only when the two
are used together?

(Unfortunately, the only common parent of the directories I'm backing
up in my real back up is /, so I'm stuck with using this style of
include/exclude patterns.)

> Andrew

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