Ben Escoto wrote:
Are you sure its a bug? Maybe it's just some unexpected --include/--exclude interaction, or a permission problem?
Ok, I have managed to repeat the problem on some dummy data I've created.I've attached a copy of the data with a bash script to illustrate what's happening ... this data (sort of) mimics my own data structure, which is why I've done it like this. (If you untar it and run test-rdiff-backup.sh from the directory where it's been untarred, it should copy some data to /tmp/rdiff-data and run two backups to /tmp/rdiff-test/bak).
It's entirely possible that I simply don't understand properly how the --includes and --excludes work, but this behaviour seems odd to me.
My data structure looks as follows: rdiff-data/ |-- docs | |-- technotes | | |-- anotherdir | | | |-- empty_tree_2 | | | | |-- dir1 | | | | | `-- structure | | | | | |-- sub1 | | | | | `-- sub2 | | | | | `-- subsub | | | | `-- dir2 | | | | |-- lower1 | | | | `-- lower2 | | | `-- somefile.txt | | |-- empty_tree_1 | | | `-- sub1 | | | |-- sibling1 | | | | `-- nextdir | | | `-- sibling2 | | `-- misc | | |-- dir1 | | | `-- fox-and-dogs.txt | | `-- dir2 | | `-- sub1 | | `-- stuff.txt | |-- tmp | | |-- tempdir1 | | |-- tempfile1.txt | | `-- tempfile2.txt | `-- various | |-- another | | |-- empty_tree_3 | | | `-- testdir1 | | | `-- testdir2 | | | |-- testsub1 | | | `-- testsub2 | | `-- moreStuff.txt | |-- file1.txt | `-- file2.txt |-- mediafiles | `-- audio | |-- Classical | | |-- audio1 | | `-- audio2 | |-- Jazz | | `-- audio | `-- Playlists | |-- playlist1.txt | `-- playlist2.txt |-- ref | `-- ref.txt `-- software `-- sofware-stuff.txt 37 directories, 15 files Within this there are three empty directory trees, rdiff-data/docs/technotes/empty_tree_1/ rdiff-data/docs/technotes/anotherdir/empty_tree_2/ rdiff-data/docs/various/another/empty_tree_3 Basically, if I run the following command: /usr/bin/rdiff-backup \ --exclude /tmp/rdiff-data/docs/tmp/'*' \ --include /tmp/rdiff-data/mediafiles/audio/Playlists \ --exclude /tmp/rdiff-data/mediafiles/audio/'*' \ --exclude /tmp/rdiff-data/ref/'*' \ --exclude /tmp/rdiff-data/software/'*' \ /tmp/rdiff-data /tmp/rdiff-test/bak/data1it works as expected, whilst if I change it as follows (the change I've made here is from /tmp/rdiff-data to '**' in the --include)
/usr/bin/rdiff-backup \ --exclude /tmp/rdiff-data/docs/tmp/'*' \ --include '**'/mediafiles/audio/Playlists \ --exclude /tmp/rdiff-data/mediafiles/audio/'*' \ --exclude /tmp/rdiff-data/ref/'*' \ --exclude /tmp/rdiff-data/software/'*' \ /tmp/rdiff-data /tmp/rdiff-test/bak/data2then it all goes a bit weird, and excludes empty_tree_1, empty_tree_2 & empty_tree_3 from the backup (as well as excluding tmp, ref and software altogether, which is not my intention).
Here's the output I get when running test-rdiff-backup.sh. (Hopefully it will produce the same results when run in a different environment):
===== START output ================================================= Files only in /tmp/rdiff-data after [correct] backup: Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/docs/tmp: tempdir1 Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/docs/tmp: tempfile1.txt Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/docs/tmp: tempfile2.txt Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/mediafiles/audio: Classical Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/mediafiles/audio: Jazz Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/ref: ref.txt Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/software: sofware-stuff.txt Files only in /tmp/rdiff-test/bak/data1 after [correct] backup: Only in /tmp/rdiff-test/bak/data1: rdiff-backup-data ------------------------------------------------ Files only in /tmp/rdiff-data after [incorrect] backup: Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/docs/technotes/anotherdir: empty_tree_2 Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/docs/technotes: empty_tree_1 Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/docs: tmp Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/docs/various/another: empty_tree_3 Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/mediafiles/audio: Classical Only in /tmp/rdiff-data/mediafiles/audio: Jazz Only in /tmp/rdiff-data: ref Only in /tmp/rdiff-data: software Files only in /tmp/rdiff-test/bak/data2 after [incorrect] backup: Only in /tmp/rdiff-test/bak/data2: rdiff-backup-data ===== END output ================================================== What I don't understand is, why would the following include: --include '**'/mediafiles/audio/Playlistscause rdiff-backup to exclude something like "/tmp/rdiff-data/docs/technotes/anotherdir/empty_tree_2"? Am I simply missing something about how --include should work?
Thanks ... Toni
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