Impossible to backup several directories without reading whole disk

[vsespb]

Hello.

I need to backup /etc and /home/vse/.rvm into single location. I assume correct way to do this is:

duplicity --no-encryption --include /etc --include /home/vse/.rvm/ --exclude "**" / file:///home/duplicity
Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: none
No signatures found, switching to full backup.
Error accessing possibly locked file /home/vse/.gvfs

"Error accessing possibly locked file /home/vse/.gvfs" - I assume that means that it tries read whole disk (which is a bug cause it's slow and i can contain other mounted filesystems) ? Why it tries to access /home/vse/.gvfs if I need just /etc and /home/vse/.rvm ?

(duplicity 0.6.08b Ubuntu 10.04 Python, EXT4)

[Phill (phill.l)]

This is still a problem in 0.6.18, it seems that duplicity attempts to stat files excluded by wildcards and reports errors if it can't.

The problem was identified years ago here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.duplicity.general/5630

Here's are my installed package details...

# dpkg -s duplicity | head
Package: duplicity
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 1028
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.6.18-0ubuntu3.5
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), librsync1 (>= 0.9.6), python2.7, python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (<< 2.8), python-gnupginterface (>= 0.3.2-9.1), python-lockfile
Suggests: python-boto, ncftp, rsync, ssh, python-paramiko

# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS"

# uname -r
3.2.0-65-generic