Re: [Duplicity-talk] using the 'find' command to exclude files over a certain file size

[edgar . soldin]

which shell do you use? ..ede

On 14.01.2011 13:44, Jason Martin wrote:
> I'm using version 0.6.09-5 from the Debian repository
> 
> if I stick echo in front of the command it gives a huge command with about 30 
> excluded files. The output format is like this...
> duplicity --exclude '**file1.iso' --exclude '**file2.avi' ...etc /home/jason 
> file:///tmp/test
> 
> If i copy/paste that back into the terminal it works as it should, though I 
> agree with you that it would be better with the full path rather than just 
> the filename.
> 
> For some reason i don't think duplicity is seeing the output of the find 
> command. so will use find to generate a temparary file and then use 
> --exclude-filelist option.
> 
> Thanks
> *Jason *
> *
> *
> *
> *
> 
> 
> 
> On 14 January 2011 12:16, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     first i think you'd be better off with a generated globbing list to 
> circumvent weird characters, see 
> http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html#sect9
>     i suggest to create an exclude file formatted like
> 
>     /abs/path/to/file1
>     /abs/path/to/file2
>     ...'
> 
>     this way really only these files get excluded, but not all with a path 
> ending in 'file' as before with '**file'
> 
>     still please run your command again with an 'echo' in front of it and 
> post the output. also which duplcity version are you using?
> 
>     ede/duply.net <http://duply.net>
> 
>     On 14.01.2011 12:52, Jason Martin wrote:
>     > Hello, I hope someone could help me. I am trying to exclude files over a
>     > certain size in a backup as they are mostly files that don't require 
> backing
>     > up.
>     >
>     >
>     > I'm using the command:
>     > ~:$  duplicity $(find /home/jason -size +100M -printf " --exclude 
> '**%f'")
>     > /home/jason/ file:///tmp/test
>     > which gives....
>     > Command line error: Expected 2 args, got 6
>     > Enter 'duplicity --help' for help screen.
>     >
>     >
>     > However,  if I copy/paste the output of $(find /home/jason -size +100M
>     > -printf " --exclude '**%f'") into the command everything works as
>     > expected...??
>     >
>     > Any ideas???
>     > *Jason*
>     >
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