The option is named --exclude-if-present and accepts a parameter
filename[:content]. Directories are excluded and their contents is not
backed up if they contain a file with the specified name and,
optionally, that starts with the specified content. The tagfile itself
is never excluded.
There is also a shortcut --exclude-caches that works in the same way as
the likewise-named option of tar(1): Directories are recognized as cache
if they contain a file named "CACHEDIR.TAG.
Closes#317.
At the moment when two items to be saved have the same directory name,
restic only saves the first one to the repo. Let's say we have a
structure like this:
dir1
└── subdir
└── file
dir2
└── subdir
└── file
When restic is run on `dir1/subdir` and `dir2/subdir`, it will only save
the first `subdir`:
$ restic backup dir1/subdir dir2/subdir
[...]
$ restic ls -l latest
drwxr-xr-x 1000 100 0 2017-08-27 20:56:39 /subdir
-rw-r--r-- 1000 100 17 2017-08-27 20:56:39 /subdir/file
That's obviously a bad thing, caused by an early decision to strip the
full path to the files/dirs to save and only leave the last directory.
This commit partly resolves this by handling colliding names and
resolving the conflicts. Restic will now append a counter to the file
(`-123`) until the conflict is resolved. So in the example above, we'll
end up with the following structure:
$ restic ls -l latest
drwxr-xr-x 1000 100 0 2017-08-27 20:56:39 /subdir
-rw-r--r-- 1000 100 17 2017-08-27 20:56:39 /subdir/file
drwxr-xr-x 1000 100 0 2017-08-27 20:56:46 /subdir-1
-rw-r--r-- 1000 100 17 2017-08-27 20:56:46 /subdir-1/file
This partly addresses #549 and closes#1179.
At first I thought that the obvious correction would be to archive the
full path. But it turns out that collisions may still occur: Suppose you
have a file named `foo` in the current directory, and the parent directory
also contains a file `foo`. Archiving these with restic also causes a
collision, since restic strips the `../` from the first file:
$ restic backup ../foo foo
This also happens with `tar`, which does not handle the collision and
will happily archive two files called `foo`.
So, the best way forward is to handle name collisions and archive the
whole path. The latter will be tackled in a separate PR.
Match/ChildMatch accept a ** pattern which is not noted in the doc
string, nor do any of the docs or tests specify whether the match is
greedy (i.e., can 'foo/**/bar' match paths with additional intermediate
bar directories?).
Add a note to the doc string and add test cases for greedy matches.
By default (i.e., without profile.NoShutdownHook), profile.Start listens
for SIGINT and will stop the profile and call os.Exit(0).
restic already listens for SIGINT and runs its own cleanup handlers
before calling os.Exit(0).
As is, these handlers are racing when an interrupt occurs, and in my
experience, restic tends to win the race, resulting in an unusable
profile.
Eliminate the race and properly stop profiles on interrupt by disabling
package profile's signal handler and instead stop the profile in a
restic cleanup handler.
* append operates on len, not cap (not a bug since len is set to cap above, but let's avoid the confusion)
* no need to extend ciphertext again to cap after we made it big enough
* make consistent use of ciphertext[:ivSize] vs iv[:]
* make all input problems errors and impossible/catastrophic cases panics
There is a lot more detail that could be added here, but it is worth
getting things off the ground with at least a mention that it is
possible to restore individual files.
Updates #396
* Replace references to ~/shared/work/web which should be ~/web.
* Replace references to ~/tmp which should be /tmp.
* Restore /home/art to /tmp/restore-art instead of /tmp/restore-work,
which is clearly a copy/paste from the command above.
Minimum version is now 1.8 according to build.go (from latest master, cloned a few minutes ago):
```
paul@voga:~/third-dev/restic$ go run build.go
Go version go1.7.4 detected, restic requires at least Go 1.8
exit status 1
```
Alexander Neumann