Re: [Duplicity-talk] Auto ignores archive dir?

[Richard Scott]

Hiya,

I use the same backup script across different servers and I want 
different named dirs backed up on different servers so it makes it 
easier to manage etc.

Rich

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:50:27 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> What is your rationale for doing this as commandline opposed to using
> a globbing list. That works smooth for me.
>
> ede/duply.met
>
> On 25.11.2010 13:27, Chris Poole wrote:
> > > I use this option:
> > >
> > > --exclude-if-present .duplicity-ignore
> > >
> > > and then put a ".duplicity-ignore" file in the top of each 
> > > directory I want
> > > to exclude i.e.
> > >
> > > touch /opt/.duplicity-ignore
> > > touch /usr/sbin/.duplicity-ignore
> > > touch /bin/.duplicity-ignore
> >
> > Cheers, that's a nice idea.
> >
> > If possible though, I'd prefer to not add more dotfiles; the 
> > .DS_Store
> > files annoy me enough!
> >
> > I'd be happy using a structure like this:
> >
> >      EXCLUDES="--exclude '**/*[Cc]ache*' "
> >
> > But even that doesn't work for some reason. I suspect it's some
> > quoting issue, but I've played around with single and double quotes 
> > in
> > various places, and can't get the damned thing to work.
> >
> > What I mean by this is that if I manually copy and paste the 
> > contents
> > of the EXCLUDES variable into the duplicity command line, then it
> > works. It's only when I try and pull these out into a variable that 
> > it
> > goes wrong.
> >
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