On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:11 -0800, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to setup my backups using rsnapshot. I have a rather large > and frequently changing /home/<user>/ that I want to backup. I don't > want to backup the frequently changing directories (e.g. my downalods > directory or temporary work directory). In other words I wanted to > rsnapshot to backup _only_ the directories/files explicitly specified > and skip everythign else. > > So I created a file ~/.rsync-filter with include rules like these, > > include_/.config/** > include_/dir1/** > include_/.gitconfig > include_/.gitignore > include_/.gitk > include_/dir2/** > > Now say I have other files and direcotries like, > > ~/.oldconfig/ > ~/dir2_i_dont_want/ > ~/dir3_i_dont_want/ > > Calling rsync with -F works but it also backs up the other unwanted > directory and files. How do I exclude them? The problem is I can't write > explicit exclude rules as that would need to be updated every time > something new is created (as I want rsnapshot to _not_ backup anything > by default). > > I tried exclude_/* at the end of the filter rules, that made rsnapshot > skip the explicitly mentioned includes like, > > include_/dir1/** > include_/dir2/** > > The hidden files were backed up just fine though. Any ways of doing what > I want? I have the following rule in my /etc/rsnapshot.conf: exclude_file /etc/rsnapshot-exclude where /etc/rsnapshot-exclude contains the following: .adobe/ .alexandria/ .amaya/ .bittorrent/ .cddb/ .claws-mail/tagsdb/ .cpan/ .dbus/ .gcjwebplugin/ .macromedia/Flash_Player/ .opera/cache4/ .thumbnails/ .waf-*/ .xine/skins/ .gvfs/ .cache/ .ccache/ [Cc]ache/ ccache/ .nautilus/ SVN/ .local/share/evolution .claws-mail/imapcache .thunderbird/**/ImapMail .miro/icon-cache/ .wine/drive_c/windows/temp/ .VirtualBox/ *.o *.flv *.mpg *.mov *.torrent There's probably some redundancy there (e.g. I forget why I have cache/ and [Cc]ache/) but it seems to work. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
