rsync filter rules ignored by rsnapshot
Kevin Korb
kmk at sanitarium.net
Sat Feb 15 08:35:50 MST 2014
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I am guessing that the problem is probably related to command line
quoting vs config file settings.
I mainly replied to tell you that if you run with link_dest disabled
you are stuck with the level of performance from 10 years ago.
On 02/15/2014 05:08 AM, Lorenz wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> sorry for cross-posting, but imho it could be an error in my
> rsnapshot setup as well as in my rsync setup. If there is a
> solution on one of these mailing-lists i will post it to the other
> one as well. ok?
>
> here is my question: when running rsnapshot, my exclude filter is
> being ignored, but i don't see why.
>
> grep -v "#" /etc/rsnapshot-debx40.conf | grep .
>
> gives
>
> config_version 1.2 snapshot_root
> /media/extfp/Backup/rsnapshot-debx40/ no_create_root 1 cmd_cp
> /bin/cp cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync cmd_ssh
> /usr/bin/ssh cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger retain daily 7 retain
> weekly 4 retain monthly 3 verbose 5 loglevel 5 logfile
> /var/log/rsnapshot.log lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
> rsync_long_args -ev --rsync-path=/home/backupuser/rsync-wrapper.sh
> exclude "**no-backup**" link_dest 0 rsync_numtries 1 backup
> backupuser at debx40:/home/lorenz/ home/lorenz/ backup
> backupuser at debx40:/etc/ etc/ backup backupuser at debx40:/root/
> root/
>
>
> rsnapshot -D -c /etc/rsnapshot-debx40.conf daily
>
> works but e.g. /home/lorenz/testsource/no-backup/some-file
>
> is also rsynced, despite it would match the exclude pattern in my
> /etc/rsnapshot-debx40.conf
>
> running the except same rsync command as printed out by rsnapshot
> -tD -c /etc/rsnapshot-debx40.conf daily, namely
>
> /usr/bin/rsync -av -ev
> --rsync-path=/home/backupuser/rsync-wrapper.sh
> --exclude="**nobackup**" --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh
> backupuser at debx40:/home/lorenz/
> /media/extfp/Backup/rsnapshot-debx40/daily.0/home/lorenz/
>
> works and e.g. /home/lorenz/testsource/no-backup/some-file is
> really excluded.
>
> after hours of fiddling around with filter rules i finally tried
> using an exclude-from file and it worked perfectly. Could the
> failing of the attempt with exclude filters in
> /etc/rsnapshot-debx40.conf be a bug? could this misbehavior be
> related to the problem i posted some days ago (see
> "[rsnapshot-discuss] wondering why backup wont start" or
> "/usr/bin/ssh not found when rsync is executed within rsnapshot" on
> the rsync mailing-list)?
>
> --
>
> keep rockin Lorenz
>
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