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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size |
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Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:23:49 +0100 |
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>
> I managed to get it to work from your suggestion to use a formatted file!!
>
> I used..
> find /home/jason -size +100M -printf "%p\n" \
> | while read FILE; do
> FILE=${FILE// /\\ }# subsitute whitespace with "\ "
> echo "$FILE" >> /tmp/filelist
> done
wouldn't a
find /home/jason -size +100M -print > /tmp/filelist
do the same?
also you wouldn't have to delete the file in the end as it would get
overwritten on every run.
..ede/duply.net
> to generate a exclude filelist, then used to --exclude-filelist option.
>
> My script is here https://gist.github.com/779568 if your interested.
>
>
> Thanks for your help!!! I very much appreciate it
> *Jason *
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> *
> *
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>
> On 14 January 2011 12:44, Jason Martin <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> I'm using version 0.6.09-5 from the Debian repository
>
> if I stick echo in front of the command it gives a huge command with
> about 30 excluded files. The output format is like this...
> duplicity --exclude '**file1.iso' --exclude '**file2.avi' ...etc
> /home/jason file:///tmp/test
>
> If i copy/paste that back into the terminal it works as it should, though
> I agree with you that it would be better with the full path rather than just
> the filename.
>
> For some reason i don't think duplicity is seeing the output of the find
> command. so will use find to generate a temparary file and then use
> --exclude-filelist option.
>
> Thanks
> *Jason *
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>
> On 14 January 2011 12:16, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> first i think you'd be better off with a generated globbing list to
> circumvent weird characters, see
> http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html#sect9
> i suggest to create an exclude file formatted like
>
> /abs/path/to/file1
> /abs/path/to/file2
> ...'
>
> this way really only these files get excluded, but not all with a
> path ending in 'file' as before with '**file'
>
> still please run your command again with an 'echo' in front of it and
> post the output. also which duplcity version are you using?
>
> ede/duply.net <http://duply.net>
>
> On 14.01.2011 12:52, Jason Martin wrote:
> > Hello, I hope someone could help me. I am trying to exclude files
> over a
> > certain size in a backup as they are mostly files that don't
> require backing
> > up.
> >
> >
> > I'm using the command:
> > ~:$ duplicity $(find /home/jason -size +100M -printf " --exclude
> '**%f'")
> > /home/jason/ file:///tmp/test
> > which gives....
> > Command line error: Expected 2 args, got 6
> > Enter 'duplicity --help' for help screen.
> >
> >
> > However, if I copy/paste the output of $(find /home/jason -size
> +100M
> > -printf " --exclude '**%f'") into the command everything works as
> > expected...??
> >
> > Any ideas???
> > *Jason*
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- [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size, Jason Martin, 2011/01/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size, edgar . soldin, 2011/01/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size, Jason Martin, 2011/01/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size, edgar . soldin, 2011/01/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size, Jason Martin, 2011/01/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size,
edgar . soldin <=
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size, edgar . soldin, 2011/01/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size, Jason Martin, 2011/01/14
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size, edgar . soldin, 2011/01/14