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Hi,

setting up rdiff-backup for the first time now, using 0.12.7 and 0.12.3
on Debian and FreeBSD servers.

Quick question on exclude. I want to backup /jail which has several
subdirs each with a proc/ directory, can I make a general exclude for
all the proc dirs or do I have to specify each one?

Regards
Olav Langeland

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:53:51 +0100
"Olav Langeland" <olav.langeland < at > active24.com> wrote:

Quick question on exclude. I want to backup /jail which has several
subdirs each with a proc/ directory, can I make a general exclude for
all the proc dirs or do I have to specify each one?

You can make up a general one - see the explanation of the string "**"
under "File Selection" in the man page.

Keith

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Olav Langeland wrote:

Quick question on exclude. I want to backup /jail which has several
subdirs each with a proc/ directory, can I make a general exclude for
all the proc dirs or do I have to specify each one?

you probably want --exclude '/jail/*/proc' ... must be quoted so it isn't
expanded by the shell.

there's also --exclude-other-filesystems, which might just do it for you
depending on your layout.

-dean

-----Original Message-----
From: dean gaudet [mailto:dean-list-rdiff-backup < at > arctic.org]
Sent: 5. januar 2005 23:11
To: Olav Langeland
Cc: rdiff-backup-users < at > nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Exclude question

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Olav Langeland wrote:

Quick question on exclude. I want to backup /jail which has several
subdirs each with a proc/ directory, can I make a general
exclude for
all the proc dirs or do I have to specify each one?

you probably want --exclude '/jail/*/proc' ... must be quoted
so it isn't
expanded by the shell.

there's also --exclude-other-filesystems, which might just do
it for you
depending on your layout.

-dean

Hi,

thanks for your reply, was helpful. I have also emailed a bit with Keith
Edmunds off-list which gave me some hints as well.

Regards
Olav Langeland