Re: [Duplicity-talk] include/exclude problem

[Justin Tussey]

Did you try the parent's suggestion?

--include '*/a/*' -include '*/b/*'
-jt     

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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin

On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Daniel Nelson wrote:

> Jacob wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:17:59 -0700
> > Daniel Nelson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I am having a problem using the include/exclude options.  I have a
> > > directory structure which is similar to this, and I want to backup  
> > > only
> > > files 'a' and 'b':
> > >
> > > test
> > > |-- bar
> > > |   |-- a
> > > |   |-- b
> > > |   `-- c
> > > `-- foo
> > >      |-- a
> > >      |-- b
> > >      `-- c
> > >
> > > The command I am trying is:
> > > duplicity -v5 --no-encryption --include '**/a' --include '**/b'
> > > --exclude '**' test file:///testbk
> > >
> > > But then only 'a' is backed up:
> > > duplicity list-current-files --no-encryption file:///testbk
> > > Sun Nov 30 21:24:49 2008 .
> > > Sun Nov 30 21:25:03 2008 bar
> > > Sun Nov 30 21:25:01 2008 bar/a
> > > Sun Nov 30 21:24:56 2008 foo
> > > Sun Nov 30 21:24:53 2008 foo/a
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
> > A bit of a guess, but try changing your includes to:
> > --include '**/a/**' --include '**/b/**'
>
> If I do this it doesn't add any of the files, which makes sense  
> because that would only match files inside directories 'a' and 'b',  
> but here I am dealing with files.
>
> If I change the include's to 'test/*/a' and 'test/*/b' it works how  
> I want but if i use 'test/**/a' 'test/**/b' it only backs up 'a'.
>
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