Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Question about excluding source directories

[Andrew Ferguson]

Jim Hodapp wrote:
> I am trying to run an rdiff-backup command that excludes a set of  
> directories (and all contents underneath these directories). The  
> command is: rdiff-backup -b -v5 --print-statistics --exclude /usr1/ 
> code/cvs --exclude /usr1/code/subversion-1.2.3 /usr1/code /usr1/ 
> backup/svn
> 
> That does not seem to exclude /usr1/code/cvs nor /usr1/code/ 
> subversion-1.2.3 at all or anything below them. Even if I just do the  
> first exclude of --exclude /usr1/code/cvs, it doesn't work. What am I  
> doing wrong?

Jim,

Did you try putting a '/' on the end, as in:

rdiff-backup -b -v5 --print-statistics --exclude /usr1/code/cvs/
--exclude /usr1/code/subversion-1.2.3/ /usr1/code /usr1/backup/svn

? A command of this type works for me.

Andrew

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