Hi,
I’m new to restic. I successfully setted up my repository and backed up my first datas, with the exclude-file option, and everything is working as expected.
Backup details :
# excludes.txt
/opt/www/nextcloud/data/*.log
/opt/www/nextcloud/data/updater-*
/opt/www/nextcloud/data/appdata_*/preview
/opt/www/nextcloud/data/**/cache
restic backup --exclude-file excludes.txt -r ... /opt/www/nextcloud/data
start scan on [/opt/www/nextcloud/data]
start backup on [/opt/www/nextcloud/data]
And the following command gives me no result :
restic -r .... ls latest | grep .log
But if I use the exclude option, with the exact same list of excluded path, some files are not excluded anymore :
restic backup --exclude /opt/www/nextcloud/data/*.log --exclude /opt/www/nextcloud/data/updater-* --exclude /opt/www/nextcloud/data/appdata_*/preview --exclude /opt/www/nextcloud/data/**/cache -r ... /opt/www/nextcloud/data
start scan on [/opt/www/nextcloud/data/updater.log /opt/www/nextcloud/data/admin/cache /opt/www/nextcloud/data/xxxxx/cache /opt/www/nextcloud/data/yyyyy/cache /opt/www/nextcloud/data]
start backup on [/opt/www/nextcloud/data/updater.log /opt/www/nextcloud/data/admin/cache /opt/www/nextcloud/data/xxxxx/cache /opt/www/nextcloud/data/yyyyy/cache /opt/www/nextcloud/data]
restic -r .... ls latest | grep .log
/opt/www/nextcloud/data/updater.log
It seems to work partially, because some files are still excluded, like nextcloud.log…
Am I missing something ?
Thanks a lot !