Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Excluding directories for restore

[Dominik Sandjaja]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 06:48 -0800 schrieb Adrian Klaver:
> On Sunday 07 February 2010 4:09:17 am Dominik Sandjaja wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a setup of a server being backed up regularly over a DSL line to
> > my server at home.
> > After quite a bad crash I am in the process of restoring the data. There
> > are some huge directories which I am now stuck a little. For those who
> > don't know DSL: Here in Germany it's usually a high download speed, e.g.
> > 6 Mbit/s and a slow upload speed, 300 kbit/s in my case. In addition,
> > the ip is changed once every day, which results in a disconnect.
> > Now I want to restore the big directories step by step. For that, I
> > tried to restore like
> > rdiff-backup -r 02-02-2010
> > --exclude /var/customers/web1 /home/backup/var/customers
> > server::/var/customers
> > but the directory /var/customers/web1 gets restored anyway. An option of
> > --exclude /home/backup/var/customers/web1 gives an "invalid path
> > specification" (or something like that) error.
> > Also, doing it the other way around, first restoring /var/customers/web1
> > and then /var/customers does not work as the web1 subdirectory gets
> > restored again (which is exactly what I'd like to prevent.
> >
> > Is there any way to exclude certain directories from being restored?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dominik
> 
> --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. :-)

Cheers
Dominik