Package: backup-manager Severity: normal Tags: patch I had some trouble trying to backup the whole system (starting at /) excluding some folders. I finally found out what the problem is:
backup-manager tries to use BM_TARBALL_BLACKLIST options only if they are below the currently used BM_TARBALL_DIRECTORIES folder. So the exclude /var/tmp is used for /var but not for /bin because /bin is no prefix of /var/tmp The test which is used for this fails for BM_TARBALL_DIRECTORIES, for which all excludes have to be applied. Attached you'll find a patch to fix this. kind regards Thorsten -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- backup-methods.sh 2010-03-18 18:45:59.000000000 +0100
+++ backup-methods.sh 2010-12-29 02:39:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -246,6 +246,10 @@
char=$(expr substr $pattern 1 1)
if [[ "$char" = "/" ]]; then
+ # if you backup "/" any path is relative to you
+ if [[ "X${target}" = "X" ]]; then
+ blacklist="$blacklist ${switch}${pattern}"
+ else
# we blacklist only absolute paths related to $target
if [[ "${pattern#$target}" != "$pattern" ]]; then
@@ -257,6 +261,7 @@
# ...and blacklisting it
blacklist="$blacklist ${switch}${pattern}"
fi
+ fi
# relative path are blindly appended to the blacklist
else
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
