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