I have defined /tmp/ as my source directory. I want to backup only in1/ and in2/ subfolders from it. What lines do I need in profile's exclude file?
/tmp/a
├── in1
│ └── in.txt
├── in2
│ └── in.txt
└── out.txt
According to duplicity man page's dir/foo example, I tried:
+ in1/
+ in2/
- **
But that did not work and I got error as:
Reading globbing filelist /path/to/duply_profile/exclude
Fatal Error: The file specification
in1/
cannot match any files in the base directory
/tmp
Useful file specifications begin with the base directory or some
pattern (such as '**') which matches the base directory.
better use up-to-date man page from duplicity's website https://duplicity.us/stable/duplicity.1.html#file-selection
not sure why the example relative paths is in there, but as the error states you will need something along the lines
+ /tmp/in1/
+ /tmp/in2/
- **
feel free to post a bug ticket on https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity/-/issues so maybe someday some kind soul would make it work with relative paths.