[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup trying to access ~/.gvfs, even though it is excluded

[André]

Hi!

I'm running rdiff-backup as a daily cron job, with the following command:

rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist ${BACKUP_DIR}/exclude.txt
/home $BACKUP_DIR/home > /dev/null

My exclude.txt file looks like this:

/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache
/home/*/.thumbnails
/home/*/.cache
/home/*/.Xauthority
/home/*/.gksu.lock
/home/*/.ICEauthority
/home/*/.java/deployment/cache/
/home/*/.macromedia/
/home/*/.gvfs

Notice that I'm trying to exclude the FUSE mounted directory .gvfs in
each user's home directory. There is no point in backing up this
directory, and googling reveals that there are known problems causing
the superuser to sometimes not have access to user's .gvfs
directories.

Despite this exclude rule, rdiff-backup seams to try to access this
directory; every day I get an e-mail containing this warning:

/etc/cron.daily/daily_backup:
ListError user/.gtk-bookmarks/.gvfs [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/home/user/.gvfs'

The 'user' varies from day to day, between my user name and my
girlfriend's user name. Is my entry in exclude.txt for .gvfs
incorrect, or why is rdiff-backup trying to access it?
-- 

André