Re: [rdiff-backup-users] How to request from new user

[Eric Jensen]

Martin,

I'm glad that you are starting to get this up and working.


> ListError .evolution/tasks/local/system [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/martin/.evolution/tasks/local/system'
>
> and involving the backup of files associated with evolution or
> openoffice. Did these occur because, for example, I had evolution open
> at the time the backup was taking place?

I don't know why these occur - maybe try a search of the mailing list  
archive and see if anything turns up there.


> I tried to include /etc/fstab originally, using
>
> rdiff-backup --include /etc/fstab
> --include /home/martin /media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup
>
> but this wouldn't run. I think there is something wrong with how I am
> using the include arguements?

Right - you have specified some '--include' arguments, but no source  
directory.  You need to have something like:

rdiff-backup [--include dirs --exclude dirs]  source-dir  destination- 
dir

That is, --include or --exclude only serve to select or eliminate  
files that already live in the source directory you specify - and  
here you haven't specified anything for the source, just the  
destination.

To include both your home directory and /etc/fstab in the backup,  
you'll need to specify a source directory that is a parent to both of  
them, so that would mean going all the way up the directory tree to  
the root, '/'.  So you could do something like:

rdiff-backup --include /etc/fstab  --include /home/martin  --exclude  
'**'  /   /media/ext3backup/rdiff-backup

I've added two things to your example - the "--exclude '**'" to  
exclude everything you haven't explicitly included prior to that, and  
the '/' to specify the source directory.

I haven't tested this - better try it yourself!  But it's quite  
similar to one of the examples here:
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/examples.html#exclude

Good luck,

Eric