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Hi
Can you help me plese.
I have a problem to make exclude dir of remote backup

FROM: server "posta"
TO:   localhost
DIR:  whole /HOME except DONT_BACKUP
COMMAND: backup  root < at > posta:/home/       posta/   +rsync_long_args=--exclude=/home/DONT_BACKUP

I have tried
backup  root < at > posta:/home/       posta/   +rsync_long_args=--exclude=DONT_BACKUP   (not full path)
backup  root < at > posta:/home/       posta/   +rsync_long_args=--exclude=:/home/DONT_BACKUP   (with

but error

If arg is a remote file/dir, prefix it with a colon (.
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1218) [Receiver=3.0.7]


Thanks

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 05:10:00PM +0200, Marcel Miku??k wrote:

I have a problem to make exclude dir of remote backup

FROM: server "posta"
TO: localhost
DIR: whole /HOME except DONT_BACKUP
COMMAND: backup root < at > posta:/home/ posta/
+rsync_long_args=--exclude=/home/DONT_BACKUP

I have tried
backup root < at > posta:/home/ posta/
+rsync_long_args=--exclude=DONT_BACKUP (not full path)
backup root < at > posta:/home/ posta/
+rsync_long_args=--exclude=*:*/home/DONT_BACKUP
(with

rsync include/exclude syntax is a GIGANTIC PAIN IN THE ARSE. I have
things like this, which work:

backup root < at > poacher.barnyard.co.uk:/home/
poacher.barnyard.co.uk-home/
+rsync_long_args=--exclude=/david/cpantesting/perl-5.10.1/

Note that the exclude begins and ends with a /. The first one is to
anchor it to poacher.barnyard.co.uk:/home/david/cpantesting/perl-5.10.1/
and not any other david/cpantesting/perl-5.10.1 that might appear
elsewhere in the tree. The one at the end tells rsync "this is a
directory. Don't back up its contents either".

So in summary, you probably want this, if DONT_BACKUP is an immediate
child of /home:

backup root < at > posta:/home/
posta/
+rsync_long_args=--exclude=/DONT_BACKUP/

or this (untested) if you don't want to backup any DONT_BACKUP directory
anywhere under /home:

backup root < at > posta:/home/
posta/
+rsync_long_args=--exclude=DONT_BACKUP/

--
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