Re: exclude error "cannot match" but dir exists

2020-05-14 Thread Mike Fleetwood via Any discussion of rdiff-backup
On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 15:42, RL wrote: > > rufus@Air-PC:~/WK/testin> rdiff-backup -v3 --include > /home/rufus/WK/testin/dummy --exclude ** /home/rufus/WK/testin > /home/rufus/WK/testout2 > Fatal Error: Switches missing or wrong number of arguments > See the rdiff-backup manual page for more

Re: exclude error "cannot match" but dir exists

2020-05-13 Thread David Precious
On Wed, 13 May 2020 09:41:31 -0500 RL wrote: > The commands that fail: (slight variations of wildcards and quotes > and a relative path. The first example is the cleanest and simplest. > The last example is using ** and it also fails.) > > rufus@Air-PC:~/WK> rdiff-backup -v3 > --include

exclude error "cannot match" but dir exists

2020-05-13 Thread RL
The source: rufus@Air-PC:~/WK/testin> dir total 628 -rw-r--r-- 1 rufus users 67 Feb 16 17:24 aud-link.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 rufus users 3759 May 3 23:39 bad-world_rant.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 rufus users 3981 Feb 9 13:00 bernie-rant.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 rufus users 584635 Feb 3 16:13