Re: [Duplicity-talk] Excluding subdirectories

[edgar . soldin]

On 13.09.2013 03:56, address@hidden wrote:
> I'm trying to back up the files in my home directory along with some, but
> not all, of the subdirectories. My home directory is something like this:
> 
> ...
> /home/james/Documents/
> /home/james/notes/
> /home/james/.gnupg/
> /home/james/.matplotlib/
> ...
> /home/james/file1
> /home/james/file2
> ...
> 
> The best I've come up with is the following command:
> 
> duplicity \
> --include /home/james/notes \
> --exclude '/home/james/*/**/' \
> --include /home/james --exclude '**' / <url>
> 
> or equivalently:
> 
> duplicity --include-globbing-filelist ./list / <url>
> 
> where list is:
> 
> + /home/james/notes
> - /home/james/*/**
> + /home/james/
> - **
> 
> In either case I get all of the files in /home/james and all of
> /home/james/notes as I want, but I also get empty directories for
> Documents, .gnupg, etc. I feel like I understand the include/exclude
> system fairly well, but I can't figure out a way to exclude directories
> since I have no way of distinguishing them from regular files. Am I missing
> something?
> 

a little bit more concise

+ /home/james/*
- **

should do the same.

but anyway. the exclude mechanism doesn't differ between folders and files, 
hence you will end up with all entreis of the folder incl. the subfolders ...

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