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Re: How to exclude all dotfiles in a folder but include a specific set?

From: qx6uwumzvv
Subject: Re: How to exclude all dotfiles in a folder but include a specific set?
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 22:02:12 -0800
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Nice, I haven't used --include/exclude before, but I have a use case now so I want to try it.
How do I make this work on Windows where there isn't (AFAIK) a common root for all the drives?  For example I want to do 
rdiff-backup \
    --include C:/from1 \
    --exclude C:/from1/exclude1 \
    --exclude C:/from1/exclude2 \
    --include H:/from2 \
    --exclude H:/from2/exclude3 \
    --include C:/from3 \
   sourcedir \\nas4free\my-backup.rdiff-backup
but I don't know what I can use for sourcedir that will allow me to include directories from both C: and H:.  The 3 included directories are all logically related so I prefer to back them up to a single repository.  Is there a way to do this on Windows?
On 2023-01-09 12:30, EricZolf ewl+rdiffbackup-at-lavar.de |rdiff-backup-users| wrote: 
Order does indeed matter _ and_ there is an implicit include "all" at the end, 
so that the slightly simpler following command should also work:

rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 5 \
--include /tmp/from/.2 \
--exclude /tmp/from/.\* \
--exclude /tmp/from/2 \
/tmp/from ./to.

It basically depends if you want to save the full path or not.

K R, Eric.

On January 9, 2023 11:42:10 AM UTC, Tobias Leupold <tl@stonemx.de> wrote:

Yay, I made it :-D ;-)

The --include and --exclude order actually DOES matter.

If invoked like so:

    rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 5 \
        --include /tmp/from/.2 \
        --exclude /tmp/from/.\* \
        --exclude /tmp/from/2 \
        --include /tmp/from/\* \
        --exclude / \
        / ./to

I get what I want:

    Processing changed file .
    Processing changed file tmp
    Processing changed file tmp/from
    Processing changed file tmp/from/.2
    Processing changed file tmp/from/1
    Processing changed file tmp/from/3

A bit hard to figure out, but it works!

Thanks again for helping!

Am Montag, 9. Januar 2023, 10:31:53 CET schrieb Tobias Leupold:

Hi Eric!

Thanks for yout reply!

The problem is that I don't know the complete list of the "normal"
folders I want to include. But I know a complete list of dotfiles I want
to include.

So, if we have

/tmp/from/1
/tmp/from/2
/tmp/from/3
/tmp/from/.1
/tmp/from/.2
/tmp/from/.3

I want to exclude all the files starting with a ., but include a list of
specific files starting with a ".", e.g. /tmp/from/.2 (at this point,
it's not a problem yet I think ...).

But I also want to include all the regular files and folders from
/tmp/from, with e.g. the exception of /tmp/from/2. But I don't know the
list to include. And that's the problem -- there could also be
/tmp/from/4, /tmp/from/5 and so on.

Now if I do

      rdiff-backup \
          --include /tmp/from/\* \
          --exclude /tmp/from/2 \
          --include /tmp/from/.2 \
          --exclude /tmp/from/.\* \
          --exclude / \
          / ./to

all the files from /tmp/from are included (also /tmp/from/2 and all the
/tmp/from/.whatever files) no matter the order of the --include and
--exclude statements.

I also tried to mess with --include-regexp, but e.g. this:

      rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 5 \
          --include-regexp "/tmp/from/[^\.].+" \
          --exclude / \
          / ./to

leads to no files included at all ...

Am 09.01.23 um 07:16 schrieb Eric Zolf:

Hi Tobias,

what about something like:

mkdir /tmp/from
touch /tmp/from/.{un,}wanted /tmp/from/also{un,}wanted

rdiff-backup -v5 backup \

      --include /tmp/from/.wanted --exclude /tmp/from/.\* \
      --include /tmp/from/alsowanted --exclude /tmp/from/\* \
      /tmp/from /tmp/bak

(and /tmp/bak contains then only the wanted files)

So first the includes, then the corresponding excludes. It shouldn't
make a difference if from the command line using --include/exclude or
using files with --include/exclude-globbing-filelist

Hope this helps,
Eric

On 08/01/2023 23:32, Tobias Leupold wrote:

Dear list,

I use rdiff-backup to do automated backups on my server. I backup /,
but I
exclude everything and only include what I need. E.g. I use the
following call

      rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist /etc/backup.include \
                   --exclude / \
                   / /backup/data

and specify a list of folders I want in /etc/backup.include, e.g.

      /etc/crontab
      /etc/postfix
      /etc/dovecot
      /usr/local/bin
      /usr/local/sbin
      /srv

That works just fine.

Now I'm trying to adapt this to a machine with similar requirements, but
including some parts of a home directory.

What I can't get to work is: I want to include the home directory, but
without
all the .whatever files. But I want SOME of them.

E.g. I want:

      /etc/some/config_file
      /etc/some/other/config_file

And also all the "normal" files and folders in /home/my_user

      /home/my_user/folder_1
      /home/my_user/folder_2
      /home/my_user/foo
      /home/my_user/bar

and so on, but I don't want

      /home/my_user/.*

but I DO want a defined set of dotfiles, e.g.

      /home/my_user/.ssh
      /home/my_user/.local/share/foo

I can't get this to work. I played around a lot with --include-globbing-
filelist, --exclude-globbing-filelist, --include and --exclude, but
either, I
get none of the .whatever files inside /home/my_user, or I get all of
them.

Is it possible to do this? Thanks in advance for all help!

Cheers, Tobias
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