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Duplicity include with wildcards

I want to backup all homes of my lxc containers with duplicity and i use (commandline simplified to the problem):

duplicity --include '/data/lxc/**/rootfs/home' --exclude '/data/lxc'

which does not match the homes, while

duplicity --include '/data/lxc/oneofthecontainers/rootfs/home' --exclude '/data/lxc'

works.

further testing shows, that

duplicity --include '/data/lxc/oneofthecontainers/rootfs/home/**' --exclude '/data/lxc'

does not work either. The manpage of duplicity tells me first match wins and * and ** are allowed as wildcards, where ** matches everything and * only one path component.

Solution

  • I still do not know, why this does not work, but i solved it with --include-globbing-filelist and a filelist with "+ " and "- " entries for includes/excludes and now it works.