Wildcards for --include-dev

Proxygen

Proxygen

Active Member
Proxmox Subscriber
May 18, 2019
231
15
38
Varies
While using proxmox-backup-client to backup a standard LXD/LXC host and it's containers, I see the following warnings of content being skipped:

Code: 
skipping mount point: "snap/core/14447"
skipping mount point: "snap/core20/1778"
skipping mount point: "snap/lxd/24323"
skipping mount point: "snap/snapd/17950"

which is to be expected, since it skips mountpoints by default.

I could manually include in the backup script arguments such as `--include-dev /snap/core20/current`, but this will become a pain to manage as you add and remove snaps. It seems that I cannot use wilcards to designate mountpoints for `--include-dev` -- it only takes full paths.

Long story short, is there any way I can work around this limitation for `--include-dev` which will not change as snaps get added/removed?

TIA
 
Last edited:
Hi,
maybe you can use --all-file-systems and --exclude instead? With exclusion, globs/wildcards are supported, see here. Exclusion can also be done via .pxarexclude files containing the relevant globs. Note that entries not starting with / will also match recursively in each sub-directory!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Proxygen
fiona said:
Hi,
maybe you can use --all-file-systems and --exclude instead? With exclusion, globs/wildcards are supported, see here. Exclusion can also be done via .pxarexclude files containing the relevant globs. Note that entries not starting with / will also match recursively in each sub-directory!
Click to expand...
Thanks Fiona. "entries not starting with / will also match recursively in each sub-directory" applies to --exclude also or only .pxarexclude?
 
Proxygen said:
Thanks Fiona. "entries not starting with / will also match recursively in each sub-directory" applies to --exclude also or only .pxarexclude?
Click to expand...
Both. Also, please note that the arguments to --exclude with a leading slash will match relative to the archive's root, not the full filesystem path on the host.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Proxygen
fiona said:
Hi,
maybe you can use --all-file-systems and --exclude instead? With exclusion, globs/wildcards are supported, see here. Exclusion can also be done via .pxarexclude files containing the relevant globs. Note that entries not starting with / will also match recursively in each sub-directory!
Click to expand...
I did use
Code: 
--all-file-systems
and it still skipped
Code: 
/var/snap/snapname/snapversion/* /var/snap/snapname/current/*
.

What gives?
 
Can you share the output of proxmox-backup-client version, the command you are using for the backup and the output of the command (feel free to shorten it if there is a lot of similar/repeated output).
 
3.0.2, using --all-file-systems --exclude /proc --exclude /dev --exclude /run --exclude /sys
Code: 
--all-file-systems --exclude /proc --exclude /dev --exclude /run --exclude /sys

IAT5H7g.png
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back