[Borgbackup] Fwd: --exclude-from | --remote-path

[Stan Armstrong]

Thanks Thomas,

Now I am getting somewhere. I learned that I needed to run my borg 
create from root in order to avoid numerous "Permission denied" errors.

However, the verbose output is too large and fast to be examined 
carefully. I tried both "> filename" and "| tee filename" redirects. 
Both create empty files. Is there some other way to get --verbose output 
into a file?

Stan

On 08/01/16 01:06 PM, Thomas Waldmann wrote:
> Hi Stan,
>
>> My exclusion list is being ignored. I have attached it. I am trying to
>> backup to a remote server on my LAN. The size of the backup is much too
>> large. I finally interrupted it. I assume that my exclusion of /media is
>> being ignored, and my large data disks are being included.
> Always use create --dry-run --verbose when setting such stuff up (same
> goes for prune policy and restrictions), then you quickly see what it
> considers for backup and what not.
>
>>      # borg create --exclude-from /home/stan/backup-exclusions
>>      root at Barbara-office:/media/Backup-S/Borg-S::Thursday /*
> Maybe rather use an ISO datetimestring as shown in the docs as archive
> name. Archive names need to be unique and a week later, there will be
> another Thursday.
>
> /* is likely not doing what you want. A unix shell will immediately
> expand this to all items found in the root directory and give the
> expanded list to borg. Try just: /
>
>> Is the format of my list wrong?
> Remove all the double quotes and retry.
>
>> I started borg on the server machine using "borg server" issued
>> from that machine.
> You don't need to manually start "borg serve" on the server.
>
> If you invoke borg on the client and give a ssh://... repo url, it will
> automatically establish a connection to the server, invoke "borg serve"
> there and then the both borg talk to each other over the ssh connection.
>
>> In future, will I have to do this, or is the purpose of the
>> "--remote-path PATH" option to make the borg on the server start
>> processing the archive?
> You usually do not need that option, except if borg is not in the $PATH
> system search path on the server or isn't named "borg".
>
> Cheers, Thomas
>