Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Excluding directories for restore

[Adrian Klaver]

On Sunday 07 February 2010 4:09:17 am Dominik Sandjaja wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a setup of a server being backed up regularly over a DSL line to
> my server at home.
> After quite a bad crash I am in the process of restoring the data. There
> are some huge directories which I am now stuck a little. For those who
> don't know DSL: Here in Germany it's usually a high download speed, e.g.
> 6 Mbit/s and a slow upload speed, 300 kbit/s in my case. In addition,
> the ip is changed once every day, which results in a disconnect.
> Now I want to restore the big directories step by step. For that, I
> tried to restore like
> rdiff-backup -r 02-02-2010
> --exclude /var/customers/web1 /home/backup/var/customers
> server::/var/customers
> but the directory /var/customers/web1 gets restored anyway. An option of
> --exclude /home/backup/var/customers/web1 gives an "invalid path
> specification" (or something like that) error.
> Also, doing it the other way around, first restoring /var/customers/web1
> and then /var/customers does not work as the web1 subdirectory gets
> restored again (which is exactly what I'd like to prevent.
>
> Is there any way to exclude certain directories from being restored?
>
> Thanks
> Dominik

--exclude '**var/customers/web1'

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Adrian Klaver
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