Package: obnam Version: 1.19.1-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
I wanted to restore (from scratch) a system where / and /home are mounted on separate partitions, but backed into the same obnam repository. First try was to mount /dev/newdrive1 on /target, /dev/newdrive2 on /target/home, then have obnam restore the last backup to /target. Can't do that: obnam won't restore to a non-empty dir. (which, by the way, also includes "lost+found" so you can't restore to a blank partition unless you get rid of that first.) Second try was to restore --exclude /home/ --to /target Can't do that: obnam ignores --exclude during restore. I ended up listing every root folder except home in the restore command, then create and mount home, and restore that. This kind of pain could be avoided if --exclude worked on restore commands. I'm sure there are lots of other use cases for this. Bonus points if you also let obnam restore to a non-empty dir (with a --force- merge option), merging source dirs into existing target dirs, and overwriting existing files. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages obnam depends on: ii libc6 2.22-7 ii python 2.7.11-1 ii python-cliapp 1.20160316-1 ii python-fuse 2:0.2.1-12 ii python-larch 1.20151025-1 ii python-paramiko 1.16.0-1 ii python-tracing 0.9-1 ii python-ttystatus 0.32-1 ii python-yaml 3.11-3+b1 obnam recommends no packages. obnam suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
