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Bash wrapper script for automated backups with duplicity supporting Amazon's S3 online storage as well as other storage destinations (ftp, rsync, sftp, local storage...).
https://zertrin.org/projects/duplicity-backup/
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Exclude don't work on master branch. #98

Closed dcmwai closed 9 years ago

dcmwai commented 9 years ago

Hello there I've samba dir with recycle vfs which will move all deleted files to something /dir/folder_name/.recycled

How can I exclude all of the folder with ".recycled"

EXCLIST=( "/dir/*/.recycled" \ )

I try this and it was working before but it wasn't now.

Thank You.

zertrin commented 9 years ago

Hi, do you get any error message or anything that could help understand what is actually happening?

dcmwai commented 9 years ago

Hi Zertrin, How can I get more debug info on that?

I've try on "ECHO=$(which echo)" before for the mail issue but that don't help much.

Any other suggestion to enter debug mode?

zertrin commented 9 years ago

as a minimum could you paste

to https://zerobin.zertrin.org and give the link here.

Otherwise I just don't have enough info other than "it doesn't work" ;).

zertrin commented 9 years ago

Just to be sure, you are aware of the difference between * and ** in the include/exclude filters of duplicity?

Excerpt from duplicity man page ( http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html ) :

The include, exclude, include-filelist, and exclude-filelist options accept some extended shell globbing patterns. These patterns can contain , *, ?, and [...](character ranges). As in a normal shell, * can be expanded to any string of characters not containing "/", ? expands to any character except "/", and [...] expands to a single character of those characters specified (ranges are acceptable). The new special pattern, **, expands to any string of characters whether or not it contains "/".

dcmwai commented 9 years ago

I'm sorry. How should I configure If I want to exclude ever folder(and subfolder) that start with ".recycled" I'm trying both * and * also can't seem to see the result EXCLIST=( "/dir//.recycled" ) EXCLIST=( "/dir/**/.recycled" )

Please advise

Thank You

zertrin commented 9 years ago

Hi, this problem doesn't seem related to the wrapper script in itself, but to configure the include/exclude lists of duplicity. Moreover, you still didn't provide the additional information requested previously.

I'm sorry but I can't provide private individual support on how to use duplicity-backup.sh, not because I don't want, but because I really don't have the time to. The number of problems that users can encounter are just too big, and most of the time are not related to my wrapper script at all.

As written in the duplicity-backup.sh IS NOT duplicity section in the readme, You need to install and configure duplicity before using duplicity-backup.sh.

Only if you can show that you can make it work by using duplicity alone, but not when using this wrapper, can I offer some help to find the cause of the problem (this would mean there is a problem with this script).

If you have problems with duplicity in general, then please use the support channels for duplicity first (see https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk for example).

The best advice I can give is really to get it to work with duplicity alone before trying to use this script ;)

zertrin commented 9 years ago

Closing for lack of feedback. Feel free to reopen if needed.