Hi !
A Debian user noticed that --exclude options are not used when
rsync is used. Indeed, I see that RsyncP.pm removes this option,
but the documentation recommends using --exclude.
I think that the documentation should be fixed.
Cheers,
Ludovic.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:33:31PM +0200, Vladislav Kurz wrote:
> On Friday 26 of September 2008, you wrote:
> > Le vendredi 26 septembre 2008 12:21, Vladislav Kurz a écrit :
> > > I did some experiments and found a workaround.
> > >
> > > Don't use rsync --exclude, but $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
> >
> > Yes that's what I suspected. You have to use $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
> > because in RsyncP.pm there's code to remove --exclude options passed from
> > other options.
> > I do not think that the developpers will fix that since it's done on
> > purpose. That's why I'll close the bug.
>
> But it should be consistent. Either remove them always or never. And it
> should
> be a documented behavior. However current documentation even recommends
> using --exclude.
>
> See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_rsyncargs_
>
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