Exclude not excluded?

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I am doing a backup, and I have this option

–exclude ‘/home/marky/.cache’

I also use this option

–exclude-caches

Yet, my backup will occasionally throw an error

error: lstat /home/marky/.cache/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/Cache/Cache_Data/8d67a36722250dec_0: no such file or directory

It’s always a brave cache folder that triggers an error. Not every backup but every few days now, it only recently started. But all these cache folders should have been excluded.

2

Please post your FULL backup command.

Not just some flags.

3

args+=(“-o s3.connections=2”)
args+=(“–exclude=$HOME/.local/share/Steam”)
args+=(“–exclude=$HOME/Games”)
args+=(“–exclude=$HOME/ollama_models”)

restic backup
–compression max
–exclude-caches
–one-file-system
–cleanup-cache
–read-concurrency=20
–exclude ‘$HOME/.local/share/PrismLauncher’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.local/share/baloo’
–exclude ‘$HOME/StabilityMatrix/Models’
–exclude ‘$HOME/Library’
–exclude ‘$HOME/snap’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.Trash’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.local/share/Trash’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.bundle’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.cache’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.mozilla/firefox//Cache’
–exclude '$HOME/.thunderbird//ImapMail’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.config/Code/CachedData’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.config/Code/CachedExtensions’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.config/Code/logs’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.config//Cache’
–exclude '$HOME/.config//GPUCache’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.config/*/ShaderCache’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.dbus’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.cargo’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.rustup’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.dropbox’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.dropbox-dist’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.local/pipx’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.local/share/Trash’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.npm’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.pyenv’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.thumbnails’
–exclude ‘$HOME/.virtualenvs’
–exclude ‘.tox’
–exclude ‘node_modules’
${args[@]}
$RESTIC_PATH

4

That only excludes the restic cache folder.

That looks like it should work. Does restic ls <snapshotid> | grep /home/marky/.cache/BraveSoftware list any files?

Which restic version are you using?

5

From what I read, it will automatically ignore folders that have a CACHEDIR.TAG file in it.

Yes, there are lots of things in the .cache folder even though I specifically excluded it.

6

I assume this is interpreted by bash, then variables are not expanded in single quotes '. While echo "$HOME" will print /home/marky, echo '$HOME' will print $HOME. So all your excludes don’t match any files (except you have a folder literally called “$HOME”).

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