I'm trying to configure Duplicity to perform a system-wide settings backup. Among other things, I'd like to backup settings in /etc/portage/, the file /usr/src/linux/.config and the KDE autostart scripts located in /home/myuser/.kde4/Autostart/. This is what my current backup-include-list.txt looks like:
/etc/timezone /usr/src/linux/.config - /etc/portage/bin/ - /etc/portage/make.conf.catalyst - /etc/portage/make.profile - /etc/portage/postsync.d/ - /etc/portage/repo.postsync.d/ /etc/portage /home/myuser/.bashrc /home/myuser/.kde4/Autostart/ The command I use to run Duplicity:
duplicity -v8 --asynchronous-upload --full-if-older-than 30D --include-filelist backup-include-list.txt --exclude '**' / $REMOTE_URL /etc/timezone and .bashrc are backed up successfully. However, nothing in either of /etc/portage/ or /home/myuser/.kde4/Autostart/ is copied. Furthermore, Duplicity doesn't handle the symlink /usr/src/linux/ and after restoring I end up with
$ ls -l testrestore/usr/src total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 4 June 16:20 linux -> linux-3.18.12-gentoo My version is duplicity 0.6.25.
This question is of no help, since I have pretty much the same situation and the proposed solution doesn't work for me. How do I fix the included/excluded directories and the symlink problem?
