Am 31.05.24 um 12:07 schrieb Fiona Ebner: > As reported in the community forum [0], for tar, an exclusion pattern > with a trailing slash will not match a folder with that name. For > rsync and proxmox-backup-client however, such a pattern will exclude > a directory with that name, but not a file. > > rsync is used for 'suspend' mode backup and tar is used for all > non-PBS backups to create the archive. So currently, in the presence > of an exclusion pattern with a trailing slash, there is inconsistency > between different backup modes (because for 'suspend' mode, rsync will > already do the exclusion too) as well as between PBS and non-PBS > backups. > > There doesn't seem to be a straight-forward way to align the behavior > for tar with command-line options exactly. The trailing slash can't be > removed from the pattern, because that would also match files. > Matching with >> some/pattern/* >> some/pattern/.* > rather than >> some/pattern/ > gets pretty close, which was suggested by Dominik. Just the empty > directory is still included. > > In any case, modifying current behavior would be a breaking change, so > actually aligning the exclusion (more closely) is better done in the > next major release. > > Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.eb...@proxmox.com>
Ping (it seems the related docs patch here was not yet applied yet, while the warning in pve-container was). _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
