Re: exclude error "cannot match" but dir exists
David Precious <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 13 May 2020 09:41:31 -0500 RL <[email protected]> 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 /home/rufus/WK/testin/dummy > --exclude /rufus/home/WK/testin/dir3 /home/rufus/WK/testin /home/rufus/WK/testout2 > [...] > Fatal Error: Fatal Error: The file specification > 'b'/rufus/home/WK/testin/dir3'' cannot match any files in the base > directory 'b'/home/rufus/WK/testin'' Useful file specifications begin > with the base directory or some pattern (such as '**') which matches > the base directory. It's telling you what the problem is. Look again at the paths - /home/rufus vs /rufus/home.