Re: [Duplicity-talk] include/exclude problem

[Jacob]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:17:59 -0700
Daniel Nelson <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am having a problem using the include/exclude options.  I have a
> directory structure which is similar to this, and I want to backup only
> files 'a' and 'b':
> 
> test
> |-- bar
> |   |-- a
> |   |-- b
> |   `-- c
> `-- foo
>       |-- a
>       |-- b
>       `-- c
> 
> The command I am trying is:
> duplicity -v5 --no-encryption --include '**/a' --include '**/b'
> --exclude '**' test file:///testbk
> 
> But then only 'a' is backed up:
> duplicity list-current-files --no-encryption file:///testbk
> Sun Nov 30 21:24:49 2008 .
> Sun Nov 30 21:25:03 2008 bar
> Sun Nov 30 21:25:01 2008 bar/a
> Sun Nov 30 21:24:56 2008 foo
> Sun Nov 30 21:24:53 2008 foo/a
> 
> Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

A bit of a guess, but try changing your includes to:
--include '**/a/**' --include '**/b/**'


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