Hi! I am trying to back up my home directory. I am using systemd-homed, which uses the following structure in /home: /home /home/user.home (this is the image file which is mounted when the user is authenticated) /home/user (this is the temporary mount of /home/user.home, which is empty when the…

[image] IPlayZed: I still would like to solve it without involving UI Here you are, test data: $ tree /Users/kptsky/Temp/test1 /Users/kptsky/Temp/test1 ├── user1 │ └── test ├── user1.home ├── user2 │ └── test1 └── user2.home 3 directories, 4 files with ignore patterns: /* !/*.home $…

As a stopby solution, I manually specified the folders to be excluded, but that is not viable when users could dynamically be added or removed.

Have a look at this post. Maybe it will give you some clue how to proceed. [image] Backup Exclusion Issue: Specific Directories root drive Support I’m having an issue with setting up exclusions in my backup configuration and would appreciate any assistance. My root direct…

Hi, thanks for the answer. So I took a look at the post you linked the only difference I see is that you used the exclude-all pattern only on the root of the backup, so /* instead of *. I changed my policy to: Files policy: Ignore cache directories: true inherited from (global) Ignor…

[image] IPlayZed: This all means that I want to backup each .home file in /home, but ignore the content or the created mount folder of each mounted directory. If too complex to create exclusions maybe set --one-file-system policy . It will skip all mounts.

Multiple problems with this: This is a non-solution, even if it would work. It does not solve the underlying problem. I encourage you to try to replicate my directory structure and check if it works on your machine, if you are unsure what the problem is and are interested enough to help. The other…

I do not think there is any bug in exclusion logic. It is just a bit tricky to get it right first time. I have no time now to replicate your issue in details. [image] IPlayZed: !/*.home /* kopia just follows your instructions - what you ask for is to ignore all but /*.home and then to igno…

I see, I did not know that order matters. When using kopia policy set --add-ignore=..., in which order does it save it? Is there a way to manually edit this policy?

[image] IPlayZed: Is there a way to manually edit this policy? Use kopiaUI… if no success please post your /home structure - not description but something like $ tree /home or similar with key elements and what is your expectation in terms of applied rule results (in similar format). I will…

I can’t use KopiaUI, because the user is a headless one (either root, or a specific service user), not a human-user. Also, I would like to be able to do this in the cli. The tree output: admin@minefpc ~ [2]> tree /home -L 2 /home ├── admin │ ├── Desktop │ ├── desktop-backup.fd.sd.tar.gz …

[image] IPlayZed: I can’t use KopiaUI, You can connect remotely to the UI something like this [image] GUI client for a remote ubuntu server Support I would like to use Kopia to backup my ubuntu server running on Rackspace. The server doesn’t have a gui interface …

File inclusion seems to fail, no matter how I try to configure it

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I still would like to solve it without involving UI, but thanks for the tip.

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File inclusion seems to fail, no matter how I try to configure it

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