Hi, Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 06:48 -0800 schrieb Adrian Klaver: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 4:09:17 am Dominik Sandjaja wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a setup of a server being backed up regularly over a DSL line to > > my server at home. > > After quite a bad crash I am in the process of restoring the data. There > > are some huge directories which I am now stuck a little. For those who > > don't know DSL: Here in Germany it's usually a high download speed, e.g. > > 6 Mbit/s and a slow upload speed, 300 kbit/s in my case. In addition, > > the ip is changed once every day, which results in a disconnect. > > Now I want to restore the big directories step by step. For that, I > > tried to restore like > > rdiff-backup -r 02-02-2010 > > --exclude /var/customers/web1 /home/backup/var/customers > > server::/var/customers > > but the directory /var/customers/web1 gets restored anyway. An option of > > --exclude /home/backup/var/customers/web1 gives an "invalid path > > specification" (or something like that) error. > > Also, doing it the other way around, first restoring /var/customers/web1 > > and then /var/customers does not work as the web1 subdirectory gets > > restored again (which is exactly what I'd like to prevent. > > > > Is there any way to exclude certain directories from being restored? > > > > Thanks > > Dominik > > --exclude '**var/customers/web1'
it really is that simple, thanks! Although I understand the meaning of ** I am a little confused why that matches and to what exactly it expands to. But for now I am just happy. :-) Cheers Dominik _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
