On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:51:02PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > The 'include' directive is kind of broken. Or rather, it works, > but the situations where it's useful are so rare that it confuses > people more than it helps them.
In more detail, "include" is inherited from BSD tar(1). http://www.tarsnap.com/selecting-files.html - Any include option will back up only those files and directories. - The process of recursing into subdirectories is also affected. Adding this to the config file: include /home and then attempting to back up / results in **nothing** being backed up. This is very counter-intuitive, but we are reluctant to diverge from tar(1) unless we have a very good reason. Cheers, - Graham
