Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup gives error for excluded files

[rdiff.backup]

Hi,

My understanding is that with --exclude-globbing-filelist each file is excluded 
by default, and with --include-globbing-filelist each file is included by 
default - but for both if any line is preceded with a + or - then this 
overrides whether the --include.. or --exclude option has been used.

Have I understood this wrong?  I thought I had verified this behaviour - but 
can't check now as I'm at home :)  I'll check this out on Monday when I'm back 
in the office.

Cheers,
Anthony

>From roland <address@hidden> on 3 Nov 2006:

> > As we aren't too bothered about the files in question, I just decided
> to 
> > exclude them (using --include-globbing-filelist .rdiff-backup).
> 
> shouldn`t that be "--exclude-globbing-filelist..." ?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 3:58 PM
> Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup gives error for excluded
> files
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using rdiff-backup to handle backups of both linux and WinNT4
> systems 
> > to a linux machine.
> >
> > I'm hitting the error below for a set of files on the WinNT4 machine 
> > ("Text file busy") - looks like the files are in use, and so the NT
> share 
> > refuses access to the file.  I get the same error trying to access the
> 
> > files directly via samba - so the problem with this file is not 
> > rdiff-backup specific.
> >
> > As we aren't too bothered about the files in question, I just decided
> to 
> > exclude them (using --include-globbing-filelist .rdiff-backup).
> >
> > However, even though the files should be ignored, I am still getting 
> > errors for these files (printed to stderr, and counted in the
> rdiff-backup 
> > statistics).  I suspect rdiff-backup is doing an initial "find" type 
> > operation which hits the samba error, and it won't be until later that
> the 
> > exclusion comes in to play (though I haven't looked at the code to
> confirm 
> > this theory!).
> >
> > This sounds like a bug - surely if the files are explicitly excluded, 
> > there is no reason to count this as an error?
> >
> > If you agree this is a bug, do you have a way to track the problem?  I
> 
> > could probably take a look into fixing it some time, though without
> having 
> > looked at the code I don't know how tricky it would be to fix.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Anthony
> >
> > ListError WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT [Errno 26] Text file
> 
> > busy: 
> > '/mnt/backups/ensoft-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT'
> >
> > server-linux3:~% cat cat 
> > /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT
> > cat:
> /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT: 
> > Text file busy
> > server-linux3:~%
> >
> > server-linux3:~% grep NTUSER
> /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/.rdiff-backup
> > - **WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT
> > server-linux3:~%
> >
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