On Monday 08 February 2010 10:57:10 am Dominik Sandjaja wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 10:05 -0800 schrieb Adrian Klaver: > > >> --exclude '**var/customers/web1' > > > > > > it really is that simple, thanks! Although I understand the meaning of > > > ** I am a little confused why that matches and to what exactly it > > > expands to. But for now I am just happy. :-) > > > > '**' is a wild card that includes '/' so by doing '**var/customers/web1' > > you are really expanding to /home/backup/var/customers/web1 which is > > the full path of the directory you wanted to exclude. > > yes, I get the wildcard pattern, but why does > --exclude /home/backup/var/customers/web1 > not work: > $> rdiff-backup -r 02-02-2010 \ > --exclude /home/backup/var/customers/web1 \ > /home/backup/var/customers server::/var/customers > Using rdiff-backup version 1.2.8 > > [...] > > Fatal Error: Fatal Error: The file specification > '/home/backup/var/customers/web1' > cannot match any files in the base directory > '/var/customers/' > > That's why I would be interested in the actual expansion of ** and how > to write it without wildcards. And yes, it's more out of interest than > of practical usage now :-) > > Thanks > Dominik
I really need to read more closely. It completely escaped me that you where doing a restore. The issue is on the server side. The root for the server is /var/customers so /home/backup/var/customers/web1 will not match. The '**' wildcard will create a match with /var/customers/web1 on the server side. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
