Should negative exclusion work with Windows paths? If so, what is the syntax?
I’m trying to backup my G:, ignoring everything and then not ignoring specific directories:
restic backup --exclude-file .\test.exclude G:
.\test.exclude:
G:\*
!G:\file.txt
!G:\1080p
Only the root directory is included in the backup, no content. So the exclusion pattern (G:\*) works fine, but not the negative patterns. I’ve also tested with forward slashes, same result.
> restic version
restic 0.14.0 compiled with go1.19 on windows/amd64
> restic backup -r rclone:backup:restic-test --verbose=2 --exclude-file .\test.exclude G: --tag "test" --dry-run
open repository
repository aa0ff484 opened (repository version 2) successfully, password is correct
lock repository
using parent snapshot 3e7ecb64
load index files
start scan on [G:]
start backup on [G:]
scan finished in 2.320s: 0 files, 0 B
unchanged /G/
Files: 0 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Dirs: 0 new, 0 changed, 1 unmodified
Data Blobs: 0 new
Tree Blobs: 0 new
Would add to the repository: 0 B (0 B stored)
processed 0 files, 0 B in 0:02
Turns out, negative exclusion works in a subdirectory. With the following content in test.exclude:
G:\1080p\*
!G:\1080p\O3310851.MOV
<every file / directory in G:\ root>
and using the same backup command, the O3310851.MOV is added to the repository, but none of the other files in the 1080p directory:
> restic backup -r rclone:backup:restic-test --verbose=2 --exclude-file .\test.exclude G: --tag "test" --dry-run
open repository
repository aa0ff484 opened (repository version 2) successfully, password is correct
lock repository
using parent snapshot 3e7ecb64
load index files
start scan on [G:]
start backup on [G:]
scan: Open: open \\?\G:\System Volume Information: Åtkomst nekad.
scan finished in 2.167s: 1 files, 98.468 MiB
error: Open: open \\?\G:\System Volume Information: Åtkomst nekad.
new /G/G:./1080p/O3310851.MOV, saved in 0.670s (98.468 MiB added)
new /G/G:./1080p/, saved in 0.672s (0 B added, 0 B stored, 2.493 KiB metadata)
new /G/G:./, saved in 0.675s (0 B added, 0 B stored, 255 B metadata)
modified /G/, saved in 0.676s (0 B added, 0 B stored, 257 B metadata)
Files: 1 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Dirs: 2 new, 1 changed, 0 unmodified
Data Blobs: 64 new
Tree Blobs: 4 new
Would add to the repository: 98.474 MiB (98.282 MiB stored)
processed 1 files, 98.468 MiB in 0:02
Warning: at least one source file could not be read
But I can’t get it to work in the root of the G: drive…