[Borgbackup] Ignoring files

[Thomas Waldmann]

> Output (of a hourly run, impressive: under 5mins for about 2TB of data 
> and about 860,000 files!):

Speed is due to the files cache. :-)

> /yetanotherpath/Maildir/.INBOX.Operating.backup/dovecot-uidlist.tmp: 
> stat: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'dovecot-uidlist.tmp'
 > ...
> terminating with warning status, rc 1
> 
> Pattern file contains following lines (beside some others):
> - re:.*\.lock$
> - re:.*\.tmp$

Hmm, the regex patterns look correct. Strange.

Maybe file a bug and include a minimal(!) script that reproduces the 
problem. Also include the borg version.

> Unforturnately using a 
> filesystem with snapshot capabilities (and taking a snapshot to backup 
> from a stable source) is not an option for most of the systems I backup.

Pity. Because the main problem of course is that the inbox is locked for 
a reason (activity in the mail files) and you could end up backing up an 
inconsistent state of the files in the worst case.


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