Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: can't backup - weird errors..

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 12:11 PM, anirudh shekhawat wrote:

> On 12/18/08, Andrew Ferguson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > You should exclude your .Trash-1000 folder -- clearly your desktop
> > manager manipulates many files behind the scenes.
> I checked the man page,but couldn't see the exclude directory
> option,how shall exclude trash folder


From the manpage:

       --exclude shell_pattern
              Exclude the file or files matched by shell_pattern.  If  
a direc-
              tory  is  matched,  then files under that directory  
will also be
              matched.  See the FILE SELECTION section for more  
information.


In other words, --exclude works for files AND directories. There is an  
extensive "FILE SELECTION" chapter in the manpage with examples. I  
suggest you read it carefully. In fact, read the whole manpage  
carefully. :-) Rdiff-backup has a lot of documentation, because it has  
a lot of options and needs to do a lot.

You can also find the manpage online: 
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1.html
along with the other documentation: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/docs.html 
 which includes a page of examples: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html


Andrew