[Borgbackup] Excludes are ignored

[Fabio Pedretti]

Try replacing
--exclude var/mail
with
--exclude '*/var/mail'

Il mar 15 dic 2020, 22:30 Yves Goergen <nospam.list at unclassified.de> ha
scritto:

> 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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