[rdiff-backup-users] --exclude-filelist ignored :(

[Klavs Klavsen]

Hi guys,

I've been using rdiff-backup for a while - but once in a while the 
backup breaks for some odd reason (sometimes because I manually remove 
files from the backup location (not from the rdiff-backup-data dir)).

What I do then, is remove the  backup-data (and then unfortunately every 
chance of restoring from X days ago) and start over with --force :(

(explanation below errormsg :)
I've just had to do this, but now it complains like this:
 /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --force --exclude-device-files 
--exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-filelist /root/exclfiles.txt 
--exclude /etc/fstab / /backup/newroot
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for source (read only) file system:
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Detected abilities for destination (read/write) file system:
  Characters needing quoting                   ''
  Ownership changing                           On
  Hard linking                                 On
  fsync() directories                          On
  Directory inc permissions                    On
  Access control lists                         Off
  Extended attributes                          Off
  Mac OS X style resource forks                Off
  Mac OS X Finder information                  Off
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
259, in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
229, in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
281, in Backup
    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
38, in Mirror
    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
215, in patch
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", 
line 279, in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
478, in fast_process
    rp.delete()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
852, in delete
    else: self.conn.os.unlink(self.path)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/backup/newroot/etc/fstab'
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/backup/newroot/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2004-11-06T08:51:21+01:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x407b7d20 0x407bba4c>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/backup/newroot/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2004-11-06T08:51:21+01:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x40513220 0x407c2b8c>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/backup/newroot/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2004-11-06T08:51:21+01:00.snapshot.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0x407b7ee0 0x407c2e2c>> ignored

my exclude filelist contains:
- /etc/lilo.conf
- /etc/fstab
- /var/tmp
- /var/log/netfilter.log
- /var/log/apache2/vhost_access_log
- /tmp
- /usr/portage/distfiles
- /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db.tmp

and it has worked - but now it complains as above.

The reason I don't want it to backup /etc/fstab is because I can 
actually boot on the second harddrive and run with a system that will 
never be older than the latest backup.

I've done chattr +i on /backup/newroot/etc/fstab - and that's why it's 
dying - but the whole problem is - why does it even look at that file - 
when I told it to ignore it?
I also tried adding "- /backup/newroot/etc/fstab" - but that didn't 
change :(

I've tried v12.7 and 13.4 - both do it. What am I misunderstanding here?
--
Regards,
Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - address@hidden - http://www.vsen.dk
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