Re: Getting excludes right...

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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Craig Barratt <
[email protected]> wrote:

> In addition to getting the exclude settings right, in 4.x if you add an
> exclude for an already backed-up file or directory, the file or directory
> won't be backed up (correct), but won't get deleted on the server, so it
> will be still be visible in the most recent filled/full backup (incorrect).
>
> If that's an issue you have, you can add the --delete-excluded option to
> $Conf{RsyncArgs} to fix this.  I pushed that change to git in a few days
> ago and it will be in 4.1.2.
>

Ok, I'm not out of disk space or anything so I'm not worried about killing
it off retroactively but I was kinda using the last incremental to tell if
the excludes worked correctly.

Thanks,
Richard

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On S=
at, Apr 29, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Craig Barratt <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D=
"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]=
urceforge.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" st=
yle=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div =
dir=3D"ltr">In addition to getting the exclude settings right, in 4.x if yo=
u add an exclude for an already backed-up file or directory, the file or di=
rectory won&#39;t be backed up (correct), but won&#39;t get deleted on the =
server, so it will be still be visible in the most recent filled/full backu=
p (incorrect).<div><br></div><div>If that&#39;s an issue you have, you can =
add the --delete-excluded option to $Conf{RsyncArgs} to fix this.=C2=A0 I p=
ushed that change to git in a few days ago and it will be in 4.1.2.</div></=
div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ok, I&#39;m not out of disk space or a=
nything so I&#39;m not worried about killing it off retroactively but I was=
 kinda using the last incremental to tell if the excludes worked correctly.=
</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Richard=C2=A0</div></div></div>=
</div>

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