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

[Zach Adams]

Duplicity will find the first match and use that, so if you have an
include that matches before your filelist the file will still be
included.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 2:14 PM, RJ Sawyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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