Re: How to exclude all dotfiles in a folder but include a specific set?

Nice, I haven't used --include/exclude before, but I have a use case now 
so I want to try it.

How do I make this work on Windows where there isn't (AFAIK) a common 
root for all the drives?  For example I want to do
rdiff-backup \
     --include C:/from1 \
     --exclude C:/from1/exclude1 \
     --exclude C:/from1/exclude2 \
     --include H:/from2 \
     --exclude H:/from2/exclude3 \
     --include C:/from3 \
    sourcedir \\nas4free\my-backup.rdiff-backup
but I don't know what I can use for sourcedir that will allow me to 
include directories from both C: and H:.  The 3 included directories are 
all logically related so I prefer to back them up to a single 
repository.  Is there a way to do this on Windows?


On 2023-01-09 12:30, EricZolf ewl+rdiffbackup-at-lavar.de 
|rdiff-backup-users| wrote:
> Order does indeed matter _ and_ there is an implicit include "all" at the end, so that the slightly simpler following command should also work:
>
> rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 5 \
> --include /tmp/from/.2 \
> --exclude /tmp/from/.\* \
> --exclude /tmp/from/2 \
> /tmp/from ./to.
>
> It basically depends if you want to save the full path or not.
>
> K R, Eric.
>
> On January 9, 2023 11:42:10 AM UTC, Tobias Leupold <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yay, I made it :-D ;-)
>>
>> The --include and --exclude order actually DOES matter.
>>
>> If invoked like so:
>>
>>     rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 5 \
>>         --include /tmp/from/.2 \
>>         --exclude /tmp/from/.\* \
>>         --exclude /tmp/from/2 \
>>         --include /tmp/from/\* \
>>         --exclude / \
>>         / ./to
>>
>> I get what I want:
>>
>>     Processing changed file .
>>     Processing changed file tmp
>>     Processing changed file tmp/from
>>     Processing changed file tmp/from/.2
>>     Processing changed file tmp/from/1
>>     Processing changed file tmp/from/3
>>
>> A bit hard to figure out, but it works!
>>
>> Thanks again for helping!
>>
>> Am Montag, 9. Januar 2023, 10:31:53 CET schrieb Tobias Leupold:
>>> Hi Eric!
>>>
>>> Thanks for yout reply!
>>>
>>> The problem is that I don't know the complete list of the "normal"
>>> folders I want to include. But I know a complete list of dotfiles I want
>>> to include.
>>>
>>> So, if we have
>>>
>>> /tmp/from/1
>>> /tmp/from/2
>>> /tmp/from/3
>>> /tmp/from/.1
>>> /tmp/from/.2
>>> /tmp/from/.3
>>>
>>> I want to exclude all the files starting with a ., but include a list of
>>> specific files starting with a ".", e.g. /tmp/from/.2 (at this point,
>>> it's not a problem yet I think ...).
>>>
>>> But I also want to include all the regular files and folders from
>>> /tmp/from, with e.g. the exception of /tmp/from/2. But I don't know the
>>> list to include. And that's the problem -- there could also be
>>> /tmp/from/4, /tmp/from/5 and so on.
>>>
>>> Now if I do
>>>
>>>       rdiff-backup \
>>>           --include /tmp/from/\* \
>>>           --exclude /tmp/from/2 \
>>>           --include /tmp/from/.2 \
>>>           --exclude /tmp/from/.\* \
>>>           --exclude / \
>>>           / ./to
>>>
>>> all the files from /tmp/from are included (also /tmp/from/2 and all the
>>> /tmp/from/.whatever files) no matter the order of the --include and
>>> --exclude statements.
>>>
>>> I also tried to mess with --include-regexp, but e.g. this:
>>>
>>>       rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity 5 \
>>>           --include-regexp "/tmp/from/[^\.].+" \
>>>           --exclude / \
>>>           / ./to
>>>
>>> leads to no files included at all ...
>>>
>>> Am 09.01.23 um 07:16 schrieb Eric Zolf:
>>>> Hi Tobias,
>>>>
>>>> what about something like:
>>>>
>>>> mkdir /tmp/from
>>>> touch /tmp/from/.{un,}wanted /tmp/from/also{un,}wanted
>>>>
>>>> rdiff-backup -v5 backup \
>>>>
>>>>       --include /tmp/from/.wanted --exclude /tmp/from/.\* \
>>>>       --include /tmp/from/alsowanted --exclude /tmp/from/\* \
>>>>       /tmp/from /tmp/bak
>>>>
>>>> (and /tmp/bak contains then only the wanted files)
>>>>
>>>> So first the includes, then the corresponding excludes. It shouldn't
>>>> make a difference if from the command line using --include/exclude or
>>>> using files with --include/exclude-globbing-filelist
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>> On 08/01/2023 23:32, Tobias Leupold wrote:
>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>>
>>>>> I use rdiff-backup to do automated backups on my server. I backup /,
>>>>> but I
>>>>> exclude everything and only include what I need. E.g. I use the
>>>>> following call
>>>>>
>>>>>       rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist /etc/backup.include \
>>>>>                    --exclude / \
>>>>>                    / /backup/data
>>>>>
>>>>> and specify a list of folders I want in /etc/backup.include, e.g.
>>>>>
>>>>>       /etc/crontab
>>>>>       /etc/postfix
>>>>>       /etc/dovecot
>>>>>       /usr/local/bin
>>>>>       /usr/local/sbin
>>>>>       /srv
>>>>>
>>>>> That works just fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I'm trying to adapt this to a machine with similar requirements, but
>>>>> including some parts of a home directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I can't get to work is: I want to include the home directory, but
>>>>> without
>>>>> all the .whatever files. But I want SOME of them.
>>>>>
>>>>> E.g. I want:
>>>>>
>>>>>       /etc/some/config_file
>>>>>       /etc/some/other/config_file
>>>>>
>>>>> And also all the "normal" files and folders in /home/my_user
>>>>>
>>>>>       /home/my_user/folder_1
>>>>>       /home/my_user/folder_2
>>>>>       /home/my_user/foo
>>>>>       /home/my_user/bar
>>>>>
>>>>> and so on, but I don't want
>>>>>
>>>>>       /home/my_user/.*
>>>>>
>>>>> but I DO want a defined set of dotfiles, e.g.
>>>>>
>>>>>       /home/my_user/.ssh
>>>>>       /home/my_user/.local/share/foo
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't get this to work. I played around a lot with --include-globbing-
>>>>> filelist, --exclude-globbing-filelist, --include and --exclude, but
>>>>> either, I
>>>>> get none of the .whatever files inside /home/my_user, or I get all of
>>>>> them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to do this? Thanks in advance for all help!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers, Tobias
>>
>>
>>
>>