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

[RJ Sawyer]

I removed the '--include...' and it still did not exclude.

On 08/29/2015 06:33 PM, Zach Adams wrote:
> 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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