Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 1.2.8-6
Severity: normal
Running rdiff-backup with --max-file-size breaks the behavior of --exclude.
Excluded files are still included when --max-file-size is used. For an example
of this behavior, execute the following (bash) commands:
mkdir temp
cd temp
mkdir -p src src/{a,b}
touch src/{a,b}/file
rdiff-backup --include=src/a --exclude=src/* src good-backup
rdiff-backup --max-file-size 104857600 --include=src/a --exclude=src/*
src bad-backup
The first command creates the backup we would expect: it only includes the 'a'
directory and not the 'b' directory. The second backup should therefore
behave the same; the only difference is the maximum file size of 100MB, which
we clearly have not exceeded. Nonetheless, the bad-backup directory contains
a backup of directory 'b' as well.
This is of particular annoyance because backupninja relies on rdiff-backup's
include/exclude behavior in this way. This makes it impossible to use
"options=--max-file-size 104857600" to exclude files over 100MB when using
rdiff-backup in a backupninja session. This is not a problem with the
backupninja helper, though, as shown by the session above.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages rdiff-backup depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii librsync1 0.9.7-7 rsync remote-delta algorithm libra
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze6 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-support 1.0.10 automated rebuilding support for P
Versions of packages rdiff-backup recommends:
ii python-pylibacl 0.5.0-3 module for manipulating POSIX.1e A
ii python-pyxattr 0.5.0-3 module for manipulating filesystem
rdiff-backup suggests no packages.
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