I'm having difficulties getting rdiff-backup to properly ignore a path
when doing a backup. I've got it ignoring one path in the excludes
file, but not the following path ... which has me pretty confused. Does
the following output look sane? (Any help is greatly appreciated!!)
(Hopefully I've included enough data to diagnose the problem.)
The situation is that /home/shares/share.ppsi/no.backup is skipped (thank
goodness), but that /home/shares/music is not skipped... but both paths
are in
the exclude file which is used when rdiff-backup fires (in a script).
I've included the path structures for the various relevant paths and
files, as
well as output from the ls -l command of the different paths, output of the
exclude file, and the script that calls rdiff-backup.
Here are the listings for two respective paths:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] backup-repo]# ll /home/shares
total 56
drwxrwsrwt 3 jae ppsi-employees 4096 Mar 27 13:40 music
drwxrws--- 4 jae ppsi-employees 4096 Mar 13 12:49 script
drwxrws--- 5 jae ppsi-employees 4096 May 2 16:43 script.data
drwxrws--t 8 jae ppsi-employees 4096 Jul 19 15:14 share.ppsi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] backup-repo]# ll /home/shares/share.ppsi
total 48
drwxrws--x 2 jae ppsi-employees 4096 Jul 26 12:03 automail
drwxrws--t 8 jae ppsi-employees 4096 Jul 26 10:06 forms
drwxrws--t 4 jae ppsi-employees 4096 Apr 28 22:34 no.backup
drwxrwsr-x 5 jae ppsi-employees 4096 Apr 28 22:43 users
Here is the exclude file:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] backup-repo] cat
/home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo/rdiff-excludes
/home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo/rdiff-repo
/home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo/files
/home/shares/share.ppsi/no.backup
/home/shares/music
This is the script that runs rdiff-backup:
(Its output is captured to a text file.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] backup-repo] cat
/home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo/daily.sh
#!/bin/bash
# daily.sh
# Executes daily backup
backup_scripts="/home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo"
backup_home="/home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo"
backup_tree="/home"
exclude_paths="$backup_home/exclude-paths"
staging_path="/home/shares/script/linux/backup-repo/rdiff-repo"
archive_name="network-archive.tar"
logDirectory="/home/shares/script.data/backup/2"
date
rdiff-backup --exclude-filelist $backup_scripts/rdiff-excludes
$backup_tree $staging_path/files
ls -F $staging_path
echo "-------------------"
ls -F $staging_path/files
echo -e "|--- Listed root of files: $staging_path and (root files) \n\n"
date
--- J.
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