Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Descending into excluded directories?

[Bret Martin]

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:36:26 EDT Bret Martin wrote:
[...]
> Naturally, I would not like rdiff-backup to back up these remote
> filesystems.  I have this line in my exclusion list:
> 
>         /home/*/.sshfs/
> 
> However, rdiff-backup descends into /home/bam/.sshfs/ anyway.
[...]

My exclusion pattern seems to be the problem.  I was using a trailing
'/' as rsync(1) does -- under rsync that makes the pattern match a
directory and nothing else.  (For me, at least, it also makes the
exclude list a lot clearer -- I can tell what is a directory and what is
a file.)

If I change the line above to

        /home/*/.sshfs

then it works as expected.

For some reason I don't understand, though, I have a number of other
exclude patterns that end with '/' that have always worked correctly.
Does anyone understand why this would be?

The only way I can think of in which /home/bam/.sshfs/ is special
is that it's an afuse filesystem:

afuse on /home/bam/.sshfs type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,user=bam)

and the other /-terminated excluded directories I had are often
subdirectories of some other filesystem:

        /amd/
        /fs/
        /home/*/.galeon/mozilla/galeon/Cache/
        /home/*/.mozilla/**/Cache/
        /home/*/.netscape/cache/

but not always:

        /net/
        /proc/
        /scratch/

yet those have always been excluded when specified with the trailing /...

--Bret