Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simple use help

[Johan]

Hi,
 """'  --include-** globbing **-filelist  """
Kindly explain what does  * globbing *  mean please.
Johan

On Friday 12 December 2003 01:33, Kevin Spicer wrote:
> On T --include-globbing-filelisthu, 2003-12-11 at 21:36, Laurent 
GUERBY wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a list of files and directories I want to backup in a file
> > relative to a fixed directory (here /home):
> >
> > $ cat /tmp/list.txt
> > user1/.bashrc
> > user1/.emacs
> > user1/work
> > user1/bin
> > user2/.emacs
> > user2/private
> > user2/src/project
> >
> > Up to now I used
> >
> > $ cd /home; tar cfz /mnt/drive/backup-YYYYMMDD.tgz $(cat
> > /tmp/list.txt)
> >
> > to backup data, and I'd like to use rdiff-backup to do the work.
>
> I might be wrong.... but I think might be able to do this (using your
> existing file)
>
> cd /home; rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist /tmp/list.txt
> --exclude /home /home /backup
>
> If that doesn't work then this probably will...
>
> Change each line in list.txt to include the full path, then....
>
> rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist /tmp/list.txt --exclude
> /home /home /backup
>
>
>
>
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Johan
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