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Daniel
Asked: 2013-09-06 07:46:50 +0800 CST

Problem excluding subdirectories after including their parent in Duplicity

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I am backing up with something very similar to the below:

/usr/bin/duplicity (irrelevant options) \
  --include /home/me \
  --exclude /home/me/example \
  ssh://remote/backupjar

The problem I have is that the excluded example subdirectory is being included in my backups. Even after explicitly giving an option to exclude it. The output shows:

A: /home/me
A: /home/me/otherstuff
A: /home/me/example
A: /hmoe/me/example/undesired-file
backup

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I think you need to put the exclude first. The documentation, section File Selection says:

    Each file selection condition either matches or doesn’t match a given file. A given file is excluded by the file selection system exactly when the first matching file selection condition specifies that the file be excluded; otherwise the file is included.

    In your example, /home/me/example will be matched by --include /home/me first, causing the exclude to be ignored.

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