[Borgbackup] Excludes are ignored

[Yves Goergen]

Hello,

I've got a problem with excluding files in a borg backup. The version is 
1.1.14 on Ubuntu Linux (multiple versions).

The command looks like this:

borg create 
ssh://user@your-storagebox.de:23/./backup-name::'{now:%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M}' 
/mnt/backup_snapshot  --exclude /mnt/backup_snapshot/lost+found 
--exclude /mnt/backup_snapshot/tmp --exclude /mnt/backup_snapshot/var/mail

Or this:

borg create 
ssh://user@your-storagebox.de:23/./backup-name::'{now:%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M}' 
/mnt/backup_snapshot  --exclude lost+found --exclude tmp --exclude var/mail

But all these excluded files are completely /included/ in the backup. 
The /mnt/backup_snapshot directory is a LVM snapshot mount directory, 
it's a snapshot copy of /.

I've seen the documentation pages about create 
<https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/create.html> and 
patterns <https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/help.html>, 
but the patterns text is too much internal-dev talk for me, I don't know 
many of the words you use there.

So in plain English, what should I provide in the --exclude option? An 
absolute path to where borg will read the file from? A relative path, 
relative to where I tell it to start reading from? Or what?

Using a separate exclude file is not an option for me because all 
parameters to borg are specified in a bash script.

-Yves
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