Some excluded files are not excluded

[JJ Luza]

Hi Dan,

First, thanks for this nice piece of backup software.
I use it for 2 weeks now (yes, not so much !), and it is what I need.

I notice what it seems to be a little bug with excluded files, but I have difficulties to find the cause of this problem.

I added some excluded files and directories since my first snapshot.
Since they are copied with "cp -al", they appear in the new snapshot.
If the file (or directory) is in the saved directory (I have only one directory in the "included saved files" and it is my $HOME), it is properly removed by rsync (so it is excluded), but if this file (or directory) is in a sub-directory, it is not removed : it appears as a hard link.
I wonder why there is a difference between the 2 cases, but anyway, I'm not an expert with rsync.

What I noticed is that the rsync option "--delete-excluded" is not used, so it may be the cause of the problem.

[JJ Luza (jjluza)]

In fact I'm wrong about the option "--delete-excluded", it's used. It is strange that it does (seems) not apply to sub-directory.
I wonder the need for these options (at the end of the command line, just before the source directory) :
--include="saved_directory/**" --exclude="*"

[Dan (danleweb)]

'--include="saved_directory/**"' means to include everything from your include path.
'--exclude="*"' means exclude everything else.

This is use rsync to sync your root into your backup folder and to exclude your patterns, include everything else from your include directories and exclude the rest.

[Bart de Koning (bratdaking)]

To fix the Schedule per Included folders option I had to get rid of the --delete-excluded option again. I am wondering if this bug is back again then...