backing up root directory fails

[wch]

If you backup the root directory (/) of your machine, it doesn't do anything.

The rsync command line contains this:
--include="//**"
but it should contain this:
--include="/**"

I think this happens because for all other directories, it makes sense to put in the leading and trailing slash; but for the root dir, it doesn't. For example, this makes sense:
--include="/mydir/**"

Side note: when backing up the root directory, I have to manually exclude all sorts of system directories and mount directories: /tmp, /media, /mnt, /sys, /proc, /dev, and so on. It would be nice if they were excluded by default.

[afrodoc (arsenovic)]

i have a same complaint. but when i try to backup / the rsync commands does nothing because it contains
exclude = "*"
even though i have no excludes. being able to simply backup the entire filesystem would be a huge improvement, i would expect this to be the most common usage of backintime?

[Martin Hoefling (martoss)]

Find attached a patch for snapshots.py.

[Bart de Koning (bratdaking)]

Thanks for the fix! We will include it in the next release

[Ed Guenter (edgue)]

It says: fix commited; but was it actually released at any point?

I am running ubuntu 10.04 and find it a bit annoying that a simple backup of "/" is still not possible?!