Re: [Duplicity-talk] Auto ignores archive dir?

[edgar . soldin]

On 24.11.2010 18:01, Chris Poole wrote:
> Just one more thing then. I'm not sure why this isn't working, perhaps you do?
>
>      DRIVENAME='offsite1'
>      INCLUDES=''
>      EXCLUDES="--exclude ~/.cache --exclude ~/Library/Caches --exclude
> ~/Dropbox --exclude ~/test --exclude ~/src --exclude ~/Downloads
> --exclude ~/Public --exclude ~/Sites --exclude '**/.DS_Store'"
>
>      duplicity $INCLUDES $EXCLUDES ~/ "file:///Volumes/$DRIVENAME/backup/"
>
> I get the message:
>
>      Fatal Error: The file specification
>          ~/.cache
>      cannot match any files in the base directory
>          /Users/Chris
>
> Now, I can use the glob **, to give **/.cache in the EXCLUDES
> variable, but then won't this match any .cache directory, regardless
> of depth? (I just want to match the ~/.cache directory explicitly).

how about './.cache' or simply '.cache' ?
as ~ is probably your backup source root.

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