Re: How to exclude all dotfiles in a folder but include a specific set?

2023-01-09 Thread Tobias Leupold
! Thanks again for helping! Am Montag, 9. Januar 2023, 10:31:53 CET schrieb Tobias Leupold: > Hi Eric! > > Thanks for yout reply! > > The problem is that I don't know the complete list of the "normal" > folders I want to include. But I know a complete list of dotfiles I

Re: How to exclude all dotfiles in a folder but include a specific set?

2023-01-09 Thread Tobias Leupold
x27;t make a difference if from the command line using --include/exclude or using files with --include/exclude-globbing-filelist Hope this helps, Eric On 08/01/2023 23:32, Tobias Leupold wrote: Dear list, I use rdiff-backup to do automated backups on my server. I backup /, but I exclude

How to exclude all dotfiles in a folder but include a specific set?

2023-01-08 Thread Tobias Leupold
Dear list, I use rdiff-backup to do automated backups on my server. I backup /, but I exclude everything and only include what I need. E.g. I use the following call rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist /etc/backup.include \ --exclude / \ / /backup/data

Re: cross-platform backup tool Rdiff-backup crashes when backing up to NFS (Devuan)

2022-11-21 Thread Tobias Leupold
t it to work. My automated backup was broken after migrating my server from Gentoo to Devuan, and I didn't notice this at once -- so I was a bit uneasy ;-) > Conversation continues at > https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/789 > > On 21/11/2022 10:18, Tob

cross-platform backup tool Rdiff-backup crashes when backing up to NFS (Devuan)

2022-11-21 Thread Tobias Leupold
Hi all, I've been using rdiff-backup without any problem now for years, but now I have one: I'm about to migrate a small server from Gentoo to Devuan. I got most of my stuff working, but my automated backup to an NFS share doesn't work. Rdiff-backup crashes. I can't even backup a single file

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-29 Thread Tobias Leupold
Hi Otto! Just to mention this: You could add Gentoo to the "Linux" part of "Installing" with "emerge rdiff-backup". Now that the project is going on, most probably it also won't disappear from Gentoo. I'll also glady inform the Gentoo guys about the new maintainership (and hopefully a new release

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Future of rdiff-backup: Python 3 migration and project maintainership in general

2019-07-27 Thread Tobias Leupold
Hi, I've been an rdiff-backup user for years now (I'm not so fit with Python, so I think this project is a bit above my skills when it comes to development ...), and I also use it in a productive enviroment. I really like it. It's exactly what I need. And I would really appreciate it not to be aba

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] State of the rdiff-backup project

2015-08-14 Thread Tobias Leupold
> But to clarify this, you first have to understand the existing program. Of course! And speaking of me, I don't ... I was just thinking about the whole situation. ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nong

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] State of the rdiff-backup project

2015-08-14 Thread Tobias Leupold
> You're not going to change that without a major rewrite. > Like you, I'm no Python guy. I like Python. And I like rdiff-backup. But perhaps, some skilled programmer has the energy to take the "chance" of the questionable state of rdiff-backup by only continuing the concept of rdiff-backup and

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] State of the rdiff-backup project

2015-08-13 Thread Tobias Leupold
> (once upon a time in the past, when Gentoo killed the rdiff-backup, there > were some comments from the Gentoo-maintainer, but these somehow deemed me > low featured). Meanwhile, it's back in Gentoo. Probably too many people complained about rdiff-backup being gone. I'm a Gentoo user and I was

[rdiff-backup-users] Gentoo masking rdiff-backup

2014-04-14 Thread Tobias Leupold
Hello list! Gentoo Linux has masked rdiff-backup: Patrick Lauer (09 Apr 2014) Dead upstream, has known dataloss bugs. Please use something more sane: rsnapshot, backuppc, obnam, ... I have been using rdiff-backup for years now on multiple machines, it has been always wo