Re: [rdiff-backup-users] exclude parent directory of a file

[Maarten Bezemer]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Andi Siptak wrote:

> Am 13. Jul 2006 um 01:44:19 +0100, schrieb Chris Wilson:
> >>How can I exclude the parent directory of a file when backing up 
> >>with rdiff-backup? I don't want to backup directories which 
> >>contain the file .nobackup
> >
> >Have you tried "--exclude **/.nobackup"?
> 
> Yes, it correctly excludes the file .nobackup, but not more.

Correct.
Maybe you could use find to locate .nobackup files, and generate a script
with the rdiff-backup command with exclude arguments for all directories
containing .nobackup files.
Or you could generate a (globbing or non-globbing) include/exclude file to
be used by rdiff-backup.

Something like:
find /backed-up-tree -name ".nobackup" -printf "%h\n" > excludefile

Things to note: what do you want when some directory contains .nobackup,
do you want to also exclude its subdirs?

HTH,
 Maarten