[Borgbackup] Excludes are ignored

[Yves Goergen]

I've tested some more. And the result is that borg includes files in the 
backup that are not included in the --list option.

When I do this:

> borg create --list --dry-run $REPOSITORY /home/me --exclude '/home/me/BufrReader/archive' 2>&1 |less

Then no files within /home/me/BufrReader/archive/ appear in the list. 
But when I do this:

> borg create -v --stats --progress $REPOSITORY /home/me --exclude '/home/me/BufrReader/archive'

Then I see all those files showing up. And that's many of them 
(thousands). Is there any difference between lists/dry-run and the real 
operation?

-Yves


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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2020, 07:55 MEZ
Betreff: [Borgbackup] Excludes are ignored

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

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