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Thread: Problem excluding subdirectories after including their parent in Duplicity

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    Question Problem excluding subdirectories after including their parent in Duplicity

    I am backing up with something very similar to the below:

    Code:
    /usr/bin/duplicity (irrelevant options) \
      --include /home/me \
      --exclude /home/me/example \
      ssh://remote/backupjar
    The problem I have is that the excluded example subdirectory is being included in my backups. Even after explicitly giving an option to exclude it. The output shows:
    A: /home/me
    A: /home/me/otherstuff
    A: /home/me/example
    A: /hmoe/me/example/undesired-file

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    Re: Problem excluding subdirectories after including their parent in Duplicity

    I don't use duplic* ... but have you tried swapping the include/exclude order in the script?

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    Re: Problem excluding subdirectories after including their parent in Duplicity

    Yes, I have tried rearranging the options. No effect.

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    Re: Problem excluding subdirectories after including their parent in Duplicity

    Quote Originally Posted by aeyoun View Post
    Yes, I have tried rearranging the options. No effect.
    Does the man page have any precedent hints?

    I looked at an online version ... seems you probably don't want the --include at all, just --exclude. Then the command just lists the directories to be included without the "--include" specifications. The man page has exactly this example in the ... "Examples" section.

    Something like:
    Code:
    /usr/bin/duplicity (irrelevant options) \
      --exclude /home/me/example \
      /home/me \
      ssh://remote/backupjar

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