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

[Peter Bosgraaf]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks the quick response.

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:59:50AM -0400, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Actually this is what i tried in the the first place.
If you take the example from my post to Roland:

rdiff-backup --include-filelist include.txt --exclude-filelist
exclude.txt address@hidden::/ /backup/lun/my.webserver.com

include.txt
/data

exclude.txt
/


rdiff-backup _will_ create a /backup/lun/my.webserver.com/data
directory. But the directory created is completely empty, so it seems
like no files are backed-up at all.


Best regards,

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