duplicity + rsync 仍然使用 --rsync-options 备份排除的文件

Question

By using the command below, I intended to exclude three types of an archive with a name that consists of Backup, however, the files still get copied. Any idea what's the mistake?

   duplicity --encrypt-key somekey --verbosity 8 --rsync-options "-avPt --delete --delete-excluded --exclude="*Backup*."{zip,tar,xz} --include="*/" --include="*" --rsync-path="sudo rsync"" source dest

I realize the --exclude flag from duplicity exist, but rsync 's more suit to my needs (multiple combinations of the flags achieve what I want). This will only be my last resort if using rsync's own flag is impossible.

Answer 1

duplicity will only use your --rsync-options if your destination url has the form rsync://... .

Also, the command you give above is using double-quotes inside double-quotes, which may not work as you intended. Looking at the sources, in backend.py we see that python shlex is used to parse the command line that you provide via --rsync-options . It seems therefore that you can use single quotes to quote each separate argument, including the one with spaces: --rsync-path='sudo rsync' .