Hi, My understanding is that with --exclude-globbing-filelist each file is excluded by default, and with --include-globbing-filelist each file is included by default - but for both if any line is preceded with a + or - then this overrides whether the --include.. or --exclude option has been used.
Have I understood this wrong? I thought I had verified this behaviour - but can't check now as I'm at home :) I'll check this out on Monday when I'm back in the office. Cheers, Anthony >From roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 3 Nov 2006: > > As we aren't too bothered about the files in question, I just decided > to > > exclude them (using --include-globbing-filelist .rdiff-backup). > > shouldn`t that be "--exclude-globbing-filelist..." ? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 3:58 PM > Subject: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup gives error for excluded > files > > > > Hi, > > > > I am using rdiff-backup to handle backups of both linux and WinNT4 > systems > > to a linux machine. > > > > I'm hitting the error below for a set of files on the WinNT4 machine > > ("Text file busy") - looks like the files are in use, and so the NT > share > > refuses access to the file. I get the same error trying to access the > > > files directly via samba - so the problem with this file is not > > rdiff-backup specific. > > > > As we aren't too bothered about the files in question, I just decided > to > > exclude them (using --include-globbing-filelist .rdiff-backup). > > > > However, even though the files should be ignored, I am still getting > > errors for these files (printed to stderr, and counted in the > rdiff-backup > > statistics). I suspect rdiff-backup is doing an initial "find" type > > operation which hits the samba error, and it won't be until later that > the > > exclusion comes in to play (though I haven't looked at the code to > confirm > > this theory!). > > > > This sounds like a bug - surely if the files are explicitly excluded, > > there is no reason to count this as an error? > > > > If you agree this is a bug, do you have a way to track the problem? I > > > could probably take a look into fixing it some time, though without > having > > looked at the code I don't know how tricky it would be to fix. > > > > Cheers, > > Anthony > > > > ListError WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT [Errno 26] Text file > > > busy: > > '/mnt/backups/ensoft-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT' > > > > server-linux3:~% cat cat > > /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT > > cat: > /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT: > > Text file busy > > server-linux3:~% > > > > server-linux3:~% grep NTUSER > /mnt/backups/server-nt1/ddrv/.rdiff-backup > > - **WINNT/Profiles/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT > > server-linux3:~% > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > The FREE service that prevents junk email http://www.mailshell.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > > Wiki URL: > > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki > > > > ---------- Your email is protected by Mailshell ---------- > To block spam or change delivery options: > http://www.mailshell.com/control.html?a=brhxenquw5gaf8i21s3teqmc_iv771aaegja8gjs5 > > Wouldn't you rather have <username>.com as your personal domain? > http://rd.mailshell.com/ad465 > Earn up to $3 for each of your friends who signs up with Mailshell! > http://rd.mailshell.com/sp5 > _______________________________________________________ The FREE service that prevents junk email http://www.mailshell.com _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
