sbackup

Exclude rules not working on some dirs

Bug #638072 reported by Carlo Rossi on 2010-09-14

This bug affects 2 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
sbackup	Status tracked in Trunk
0.11	Fix Released	Low	Jean-Peer Lorenz	sbackup 0.11.2
Trunk	Fix Released	Low	Jean-Peer Lorenz

Bug Description

The exclude rules for regular expression or file size does not works when the file path include "spurious" characters.
The probable cause is the fact that the tar command is launched with the parameter --exclude-from=/tmp/sbackup/excludes.list and I read from tar manual that -X, --exclude-from FILE stand for "exclude patterns listed in FILE" so characters like [] and () and |$* break the exclusion process.

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Jean-Peer Lorenz (peer.loz) wrote on 2010-09-15:

Thanks for using Simple Backup and reporting this issue.

In order to solve the problem some more information are required. Please provide:
* which version are you referring to?
* installed from?
* How was the bug exposed to you? Can you post log files (debug output level)?
* Exclusion expression and path names that are affected?

Thanks in advance.

Changed in sbackup:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Carlo Rossi (carlo-rossi) wrote on 2010-09-16:

logs_and_listing.tgz Edit (37.7 KiB, application/x-tar)

Ok i've collected some more information.

The version is 0.11.1ppa2~lucid1 installed from ppa repository.

I created some dirs and file to recreate the error condition.

There are one dir named test-dir that contains two more dirs 'normal name dir' and 'not so good name [ops]'. In each of these dirs there are two file , one copy for each dir, one is too big for the config specifications and one has the wrong name '.iso' so both of them should be excluded.

The exclusion work for the 'normal name dir' but didn't work for 'not so good name [ops]'.

I attach the listing of the file in the dirs "dir.list" , the content of the tar archive "files.tar.listing", the config file from /etc, exclude and include files found in the backup dir and obviously the log file with debug level.

I hope this will help.

Thank you.

Jean-Peer Lorenz (peer.loz) on 2010-09-16