Re: [Duplicity-talk] Help with --exclude-filelist

[RJ Sawyer]

On 08/29/2015 02:39 PM, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, RJ Sawyer wrote:
> 
>> Hello all:
>>
>> Duplicity seems to do everything I want it to, excluding one thing. I am
>> trying to use --exclude-filelist to exclude a list of directories, but I
>> don't know how to use it correctly.
>>
>> duplicity --include /home/rj --exclude-filelist=exclude.txt  -v 8 full
>> /home/rj/ "file:///media/rj/RJ 5"
>>
>> is the command I am trying to use, and the directories are in
>> exclude.txt, each on a new line and in the format 'Docuemnts/Stuff/'
>> without quotes.
> 
> I don't think the slash at the end should be there.  Try it without
> that? (Also, I assume in the real version of the file, "Documents" is
> spelled correctly?  And of course you know that it is case sensitive.)
> 
> Specifying "--include /home/rj" should not be necessary, but I don't
> think it hurts.
> 
> I presume you have read the "FILE SELECTION" section in the duplicity
> man page?
> 

Tried it without the slash, still didn't exclude the directories. (You
would assume incorrectly, they were both spelled incorrectly, but the
same way. Fixed it anyway.)

I tried it without --include /home..., no difference.

And yes, I have read the man page.

Thanks
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RJ Sawyer
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