Re: [rsnapshot-discuss] How to exclude directory with spaces

[David K. <dj...@cy...>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 11:11:53AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>    On 30 March 2018 at 23:12, David Keegel <[1]dj...@cy...> wrote:
> 
>    On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 06:20:58PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>    >    On 30 March 2018 at 14:47, Chris Dunn <[1][2]ch...@ic...>
>    wrote:
>    >
>    >    On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:53:51 +0100
>    >    "Patrick O'Callaghan" <[2][3]poc...@gm...> wrote:
>    >    > On 29 March 2018 at 15:48, Chris Dunn <[3][4]ch...@ic...>
>    wrote:
>    >    >
>    >    > > I use SpiderOak for cloud backups and for each user the app
>    creates
>    >    > > a "SpiderOak Hive" directory in the users home directory.
>    >    > >
>    >    > > I need to exclude these directories from my rsnapshot backups.
>    >    > >
>    >    > > At present I have a line in my config :
>    >    > >
>    >    > > "exclude<TAB>/home/ccc/SpiderOak\<TAB>Hive/<TAB>"
>    >    > >
>    >    > > That does not work. What should the correct line be for a
>    directory
>    >    > > with a space in it's name?
>    >    >
>    >    >
>    >    > Looks like you're excluding directories with tabs in their name,
>    >    > which is not what you said.
>    >    >
>    >    > poc
>    >
>    >      Not really. I tried using Spideroak\<SPC>Hive which I thought
>    was
>    >      correct but that didn't work so realsing that rsnapshot config
>    is
>    >      touchy about tabs being inserted correctly (not spaces), changed
>    it
>    >      to
>    >      SpiderOak\<TAB>Hive and that didn't work either.
>    I would try
>            Spideroak<SPC>Hive
>    (with no backslash, unless the backslash is literally part of the file
>    name, which in Chris' case it isn't).  That should work with some
>    versions of rsnapshot, but not others.
>    Another way to do this is to use "?" (single character wildcard) to
>    match the space.  I think that works in most (if not all) versions
>    of rsnapshot.  But there is a risk it might match SpideroakXHive
>    (as unlikely as that sounds in this case).
>    >    I use 'exclude_file' rather than 'exclude' directly:
>    >    exclude_file<TAB>/etc/rsnaphot-exclude
>    >    Then in my /etc/rsnapshot-exclude file there's a line reading:
>    >    VirtualBox\ VMs/
>    >    and that works fine.
>    I'm not sure if there should be a backslash there either, but I
>    guess its easy to test whether it works with your local versions
>    of rsnapshot and rsync.
> 
>    According to rsync(1):
>    in  a  wildcard  pattern, a backslash can be used to escape a wildcard
>    character, but it is matched literally when no wildcards are present.
>    This means that there is an extra level of back‐slash removal when a
>    pattern contains wildcard characters compared to a pattern that has
>    none.  e.g. if you add a wildcard to "foo\bar" (which matches the
>    backslash) you would need to use "foo\\bar*" to avoid the "\b" becoming
>    just "b".
>    So it turns out the \ in my example is wrong, as the pattern isn't
>    matched using wildcards ('?', '*' and '[') and I'm inadvertently
>    backing up those VMs! Luckily I don't use VirtualBox any more so
>    there's only one copy. Thanks for the heads up.
>    Going back to the OP's question, maybe try with a '/' at the end of the
>    pattern?
>    poc

He already had a '/' at the end.
I think OP (Chris) should use one of these:
	exclude<TAB>/home/ccc/SpiderOak<SPC>Hive/
	exclude<TAB>/home/ccc/SpiderOak?Hive/
and make sure there are no backslashes.

If those don't work, tell us which version of rsnapshot.

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