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Are folders being included correctly?

Asked by Martin Fisher

BiT is looking even better these days (I am using 0.9.99.56) and the ability to open the logs directly is very helpful, thank you! This enabled me to discover something that I don't understand. I have excluded hidden files from my home folder backup but I have included two hidden folders to be backed up, viz:

home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/basic
home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/wordbook

because I want to back up my custom dictionary and my macros for OpenOffice.

However, when I look at the log of the most recent backup I see this

[C] >f.st...... home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu
[C] >f.st...... home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Recovery.xcu
[C] >f..t...... home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Views.xcu

and this led me to look at what was backed up. I found that the folder .openoffice.org is being backed up (all subfolders and files) even though I have included only two subfolders.

Is this a bug?

With grateful thanks, Martin

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

Please change something (add a dummy file), run from command line:
    backintime -b
and attach full rsync commands.

(This is something I should add into the log).

Regards,
Dan

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Martin Fisher (yusuf-martin) said : 		#2

Thanks Dan, and here you go (I see that it is including folders that I have not specified):

Back In Time
Version: 0.9.99.56

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

INFO: Lock
INFO: [GnomePlugin.Systray.run]
 INFO: on process begins
INFO: [GnomePlugin.Systray.run] begin loop
INFO: Profile_id: 1
INFO: Compare with old snapshot: 20100717-170002-797
INFO: Command "rsync -rltDH --no-p --no-g --no-o --delete --delete-excluded -i --dry-run --out-format="BACKINTIME: %i %n%L" --chmod=Da+w --exclude="/media/littleblack" --exclude="/home/martin/.local/share/backintime" --include="/home/martin/" --include="/home/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/basic/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/wordbook/" --exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --exclude=".gvfs" --exclude=".cache*" --exclude="[Cc]ache*" --exclude=".thumbnails*" --exclude="[Tt]rash*" --exclude="/home/martin/Ubuntu One" --exclude=".*" --exclude="/home/martin/Downloads" --exclude="/home/martin/Dropbox" --include="/home/martin/**" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/basic/**" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/wordbook/**" --exclude="*" / "/media/littleblack/backintime/martin-laptop/martin/1/20100717-170002-797/backup/"" returns 0
INFO: Create hard-links
INFO: Command "cp -dRl "/media/littleblack/backintime/martin-laptop/martin/1/20100717-170002-797/backup/"* "/media/littleblack/backintime/martin-laptop/martin/1/new_snapshot/backup/"" returns 0
INFO: Command "find "/media/littleblack/backintime/martin-laptop/martin/1/new_snapshot" -type d -exec chmod u+wx {} \;" returns 0
INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot
INFO: Command "rsync -rltDH --no-p --no-g --no-o --delete --delete-excluded -v --chmod=Da+w --exclude="/media/littleblack" --exclude="/home/martin/.local/share/backintime" --include="/home/martin/" --include="/home/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/basic/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/" --include="/home/martin/.openoffice.org/3/user/wordbook/" --exclude="*.backup*" --exclude="*~" --exclude=".gvfs" --exclude=".cache*" --exclude="[Cc]ache*" --exclude=".thumbnails*" --exclude="[Tt]rash*" --exclude="/home/martin/Ubuntu One" --exclude=".*" --exclude="/ho

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Martin Fisher (yusuf-martin) said : 		#3

Hi Dan

Just wondered if you have any more thoughts on this?

Thanks!

Martin

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Martin Fisher (yusuf-martin) said : 		#4

Using 1.0.6 I would just like to let you know that this problem persists.

With thanks, Martin

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#5

Sorry I forgot about it :)

It seems to be a real but so I'll open it.

Regards,
Dan

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