Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Troubles with --include-list and --exclude-list options

[Andrew Ferguson]

Hi Peter,

I think what you want to do is as simple as switching the order of
--exclude-filelist and --include-filelist. So,

rdiff-backup    --verbosity 5 \
                --print-statistics \
                --include-filelist /backup/include/$i \
                --exclude-filelist /backup/exclude/$i \
                address@hidden::/ /backup/lun/$i

the --include option has higher precedence since it comes first on the
command-line. In the manpage
(http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1.html) there is the
example (File Selection section):

rdiff-backup --include /usr/local/bin --exclude /usr/local /usr /backup

would backup the /usr/local/bin directory (and its contents), but not
/usr/local/doc.


Is this what you're looking for?

Andrew


Peter Bosgraaf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am fairly new to rdiff-backup and i'm having some troubles configuring
> the following:
> 
> I'm trying to build and unattended backup script for our hosting
> facility. The backup is initiated from the backup server. By default i
> want to include everything from the remote server, which if i read the
> documentation correctly is default behavior when i specifiy address@hidden::/
> 
> Now what i want to do is create an override possibility per host. I'm
> using the following syntax to (hopefully) accomplish that:
> 
> rdiff-backup  --verbosity 5 \
>               --print-statistics \
>               --exclude-filelist /backup/exclude/$i \
>               --include-filelist /backup/include/$i \
>               address@hidden::/ /backup/lun/$i
> 
> $i is the variable for the remote host which i should backup.
> 
> The trouble i'm experiencing is when i try to do the inverted. So what i
> thought was possible (with the same command line options) is to exclude
> everything by entering a "/" in the exclude file, and include just the
> paths i wanted to backup in the include file. 
> 
> I've been puzzling for some hours now, shifing precedence etc ...
> 
> Could anyone show me the magic? or point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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