Directories still being included with -nobackup-file

Bug
#1

I’m trying to use the -nobackup-file option with version 2.6.1 CLI on OS X and getting an unexpected result. The contents of all directories that contain my defined nobackup-file (.nobackup in this case) are correctly excluded from a backup. The problem is that the directories themselves are still being included so that when I do a restore, I get a number of empty directories.

As I understand it, the -nobackup-file option should exclude both the contents and the directory itself. Since it’s correctly excluding files in folders with the .nobackup file it appears that I configured it correctly. Is there some other setting that also affects this behavior?

I should add that the empty directories are not shown in the tree view on the Restore tab using Web Edition 1.4.0. And curiously, the .DS_Store files that I have excluded are shown in that view even though they do not get restored.

#2

Anybody have thoughts on this? The documentation doesn’t seem to be consistent with the current behavior.

On the page for the set command it describes it as follows:

-nobackup-file <file name> Directories containing a file with this name will not be backed up

#3

This behavior is caused by the implementation – the directory must be listed in order to find the nobackup file, but when the directory is listed it has already been added to the file/directory list. I’ll check the code to see if there is an easy way to exclude such directories.

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#4

That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

While I have your attention, is there a way to use the set command to enable the --nobackup-file feature with the Web-UI before a backup is run for the first time?

I see there’s ~/.duplicacy-web/repositories/localhost/all/.duplicacy/preferences but setting the --nobackup-file option there doesn’t get inherited by the new repository. Setting it in the new repository works once it’s created but since only seems to be created after a backup has run at least once that defeats the purpose of ignoring those folders from the start.