Re: [Duplicity-talk] Auto ignores archive dir?

[edgar . soldin]

What is your rationale for doing this as commandline opposed to using a 
globbing list. That works smooth for me.

ede/duply.met

On 25.11.2010 13:27, Chris Poole wrote:
> > I use this option:
> >
> > --exclude-if-present .duplicity-ignore
> >
> > and then put a ".duplicity-ignore" file in the top of each directory I want
> > to exclude i.e.
> >
> > touch /opt/.duplicity-ignore
> > touch /usr/sbin/.duplicity-ignore
> > touch /bin/.duplicity-ignore
>
> Cheers, that's a nice idea.
>
> If possible though, I'd prefer to not add more dotfiles; the .DS_Store
> files annoy me enough!
>
> I'd be happy using a structure like this:
>
>      EXCLUDES="--exclude '**/*[Cc]ache*' "
>
> But even that doesn't work for some reason. I suspect it's some
> quoting issue, but I've played around with single and double quotes in
> various places, and can't get the damned thing to work.
>
> What I mean by this is that if I manually copy and paste the contents
> of the EXCLUDES variable into the duplicity command line, then it
> works. It's only when I try and pull these out into a variable that it
> goes wrong.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Duplicity-talk mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk