[Borgbackup] Excludes are ignored

[Bzzzz]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:06:29 +0100
Yves Goergen <nospam.list at unclassified.de> wrote:

> Hello,

Biscotte,

> 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 store all exclusions in, using the switch:
	--exclude-from <filename>
that is working well - it needs a little trick to also avoid keeping
hidden files (/.?* termination)

Here's a sample of it:

# FROM :
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/help.html#borg-help-patterns
# NB...:Default style is: fm:/path/bla  -  fair enough for my needs.
#
/lost+found/*
/lost+found/.?*
/BACKUP/*
/BACKUP/.?*
/bin/lost+found/*
/bin/lost+found/.?*
/BORG/*
/BORG/.?*
/boot/lost+found/*
/boot/lost+found/.?*
/dev/*
/dev/.?*
[…]
/home/*/.cache/chromium/*
/home/*/.cache/mozilla/firefox/*
/home/*/.claws-mail/tmp/*
/home/*/.googleearth/Cache/*
[…]
/NFS/*/*
/NFS/*/.?*
/proc/*
/run/*
/srv/*
/sys/*

Jean-Yves