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$ rdiff-backup -v 9 --no-carbonfile --remove-older-than 14D
--include-globbing-filelist
/media/storage/1/scripts/rdiff-music.include
--exclude-globbing-filelist
/media/storage/1/scripts/rdiff-music.exclude
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/ /media/storage/1/Music
Mon Jun 7 10:52:49 2010 Using rdiff-backup version 1.2.8
Mon Jun 7 10:52:49 2010 Fatal Error: Wrong number of arguments given.
See the rdiff-backup manual page for more information.

if I remove the --remove-older-than 14D part it works fine, but as far
as I can tell from the man file I'm using the command correctly?

thanks!

--
Steve

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On 07/06/10 16:54, Steven Adeff wrote:
$ rdiff-backup -v 9 --no-carbonfile --remove-older-than 14D
--include-globbing-filelist
/media/storage/1/scripts/rdiff-music.include
--exclude-globbing-filelist
/media/storage/1/scripts/rdiff-music.exclude
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/ /media/storage/1/Music
Mon Jun 7 10:52:49 2010 Using rdiff-backup version 1.2.8
Mon Jun 7 10:52:49 2010 Fatal Error: Wrong number of arguments given.
See the rdiff-backup manual page for more information.

if I remove the --remove-older-than 14D part it works fine, but as far
as I can tell from the man file I'm using the command correctly?

The man page says

rdiff-backup [options] [[[user < at > ]host1.foo]::source_directory]
[[[user < at > ]host2.foo]::destination_directory]

rdiff-backup {{ -l | --list-increments } | --remove-older-than
time_interval | --list-at-time time | --list-changed-since time |
--list-increment-sizes | --verify | --verify-at-time time}
[[[user < at > ]host2.foo]::destination_directory]

What this means is that you can only do
*either*
rdiff-backup [options] <source> <dest>
*or*
rdiff-backup --remove-older-than <dest>

Means, you'd do the backup first and then call rdiff-backup once more
with remove-older-than:
rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 14D /media/storage/1/Music

Regards,
Jakob

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On 08/06/10 00:37, Steven Adeff wrote:

perfect, thanks!

second question...

so I have a directory,
/media/storage/2/Music/Music

of which I have some specific folders I want to rdiff-backup to one drive,
/media/storage/1/Music

and all the rest I want to rdiff to another drive. So I understand I
can use the exclude command for the second case with an exclude file
like such:
rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist rdiff-music.globlist
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/ /media/storage/3/Music

but what is the best way to tell rdiff-backup that I want to only
backup the specific set of directories in that globlist file?

If I use it as an include-globbing-filelist it complains that
including is it's normal action, but I don't quite get how to tell it
to exclude everything *but* what I want it to include.

THANKS!


You'd do that by including some files and then excluding everything.
Like
rdiff-backup --include /foo/onlythis --exclude /foo /foo /dest

For more, see "FILE SELECTION" in
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup.1.html , it's quite well
explained.

Regards,
Jakob

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On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Jakob Unterwurzacher <jakobunt < at > gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/06/10 00:37, Steven Adeff wrote:

perfect, thanks!

second question...

so I have a directory,
/media/storage/2/Music/Music

of which I have some specific folders I want to rdiff-backup to one drive,
/media/storage/1/Music

and all the rest I want to rdiff to another drive. So I understand I
can use the exclude command for the second case with an exclude file
like such:
rdiff-backup --exclude-globbing-filelist rdiff-music.globlist
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/ /media/storage/3/Music

but what is the best way to tell rdiff-backup that I want to only
backup the specific set of directories in that globlist file?

If I use it as an include-globbing-filelist it complains that
including is it's normal action, but I don't quite get how to tell it
to exclude everything *but* what I want it to include.

THANKS!


You'd do that by including some files and then excluding everything.
Like
 rdiff-backup --include /foo/onlythis --exclude /foo /foo /dest

For more, see "FILE SELECTION" in
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup.1.html , it's quite well
explained.

so what the file is saying is
rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist music.glob --exclude
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/ /media/storage/2/Music/Music
/media/storage/1/Music

will include all the directories in /media/storage/2/Music/Music that
are listed in my music.glob file since the include comes first. even
if the exclude excludes the same folder

here's the problem. that doesn't work.
-steve

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On 10/06/10 02:03, Steven Adeff wrote:
If I use it as an include-globbing-filelist it complains that
including is it's normal action, but I don't quite get how to tell it
to exclude everything *but* what I want it to include.
[...]

so what the file is saying is
rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist music.glob --exclude
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/ /media/storage/2/Music/Music
/media/storage/1/Music

will include all the directories in /media/storage/2/Music/Music that
are listed in my music.glob file since the include comes first. even
if the exclude excludes the same folder

here's the problem. that doesn't work.
-steve

Hmm, I thought that was exactly what you wanted - include a
hand-selected list of folders and exclude everything else. Could you
give an example (i.e. list some folders) and what you want to happen?

Jakob

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On 12/06/10 03:59, Steven Adeff wrote:
so what the file is saying is
rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist music.glob --exclude
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/ /media/storage/2/Music/Music
/media/storage/1/Music

will include all the directories in /media/storage/2/Music/Music that
are listed in my music.glob file since the include comes first. even
if the exclude excludes the same folder

here's the problem. that doesn't work.
-steve

Hmm, I thought that was exactly what you wanted - include a
hand-selected list of folders and exclude everything else. Could you
give an example (i.e. list some folders) and what you want to happen?

Jakob

ok, so I have
/media/storage/2/Music/Music
within it I have
Podcasts
[...]

and the only ones I want to include are:
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/HDTracks
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/KEXP Song of the Day
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/My Amazon
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/My eMusic
/media/storage/2/Music/Music/My CDs
(which is my music.glob file)

what I can't get it to do is ignore all the others. all I can manage
to do is get all of them or none of them...

I'm starting to think you see this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587758

Could you extract the attached tar.gz to a empty directory, cd to it,
execute
./run.sh
and send the output?

For reference, this is the output here, and you see that dst does NOT
contain not.1 and not.2 .
-----------------------------------------------
$ ./run.sh
rdiff-backup 1.2.8
.:
dst filelist run.sh src

./dst:
rdiff-backup-data yes.1 yes.2

./dst/rdiff-backup-data:
backup.log file_statistics.2010-06-12T13:34:41+02:00.data.gz
chars_to_quote increments
current_mirror.2010-06-12T13:34:41+02:00.data
mirror_metadata.2010-06-12T13:34:41+02:00.snapshot.gz
error_log.2010-06-12T13:34:41+02:00.data
session_statistics.2010-06-12T13:34:41+02:00.data

./dst/rdiff-backup-data/increments:

./dst/yes.1:

./dst/yes.2:

./src:
not.1 not.2 yes.1 yes.2

./src/not.1:

./src/not.2:

./src/yes.1:

./src/yes.2:

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