I just checked to make sure, but your example only excludes files named .NOBACKUP . --exclude-if-present excludes the entire directory.
Example: $ ls -a test1 . .. file1 test2 test4 $ ls -a test1/test2 . .. file1 .NOBACKUP test3 $ /tmp/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP /tmp/test1 /tmp/backup_test $ ls -a backup_test . .. file1 rdiff-backup-data test2 test4 $ ls -a backup_test/test2/ . .. file1 test3 $ /tmp/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude-if-present .NOBACKUP /tmp/test1 /tmp/backup_test2 $ ls -a backup_test2 . .. file1 rdiff-backup-data test4 -Jeff On Friday 16 March 2007 6:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How similar to this is rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP ? > > -Eric > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, dean gaudet wrote: > > excellent, i've wanted this feature... i'll apply it next time i'm > > running through patches. any chance you could do a 1.1.x port as well? > > > > thanks > > -dean > > > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Jeff Strunk wrote: > >> I have a small contribution to make in the form of a simple selection > >> function. > >> > >> My company has found that we needed a way for users to say that > >> particular directories shouldn't get backed up. The attached patch adds > >> the --exclude-if-present option. It has been tested with 1.0.4 and > >> 1.0.5. > >> > >> I documented it on the wiki at > >> http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/ExcludeIfPresent . > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Jeff Strunk > >> IT Administrator > >> Enthought, Inc. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > > Wiki URL: > > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
