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

[edgar . soldin]

> 
> I managed to get it to work from your suggestion to use a formatted file!! 
> 
> I used..
> find /home/jason -size +100M -printf "%p\n" \
> | while read FILE; do
> FILE=${FILE// /\\ }# subsitute whitespace with "\ "
> echo "$FILE" >> /tmp/filelist
> done

wouldn't a 
find /home/jason -size +100M -print > /tmp/filelist 
do the same?
also you wouldn't have to delete the file in the end as it would get 
overwritten on every run.

..ede/duply.net
 
> to generate a exclude filelist, then used to --exclude-filelist option.
> 
> My script is here https://gist.github.com/779568 if your interested.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help!!! I very much appreciate it
> *Jason *
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> 
> 
> On 14 January 2011 12:44, Jason Martin <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> 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 *
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> 
> 
>     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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