BM_TARBALL_BLACKLIST with whitespace in path

[a200612]

Hi,

how to exclude a directory with whitespace in its name from the backup?

Regards
Joshua

[Vagrantin]

I'm experiencing the same issue 👍
Didn't found any way yet to do that…

[gloomytrousers]

Like this: /home/me/dir?with?spaces. The ? is expanded by the shell to match any character, including a space.

HOWEVER this appears to expose another bug, at least in the slightly old version packaged in Fedora; I've submitted a patch at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1656423 and will submit is as a PR here soon, if it's not already in fixed.

[alexislefebvre]

It may work with this syntax:

declare -a BM_TARBALL_BLACKLIST
BM_TARBALL_BLACKLIST[0]="/etc/nospace/"
BM_TARBALL_BLACKLIST[1]="/etc/there is space"
export BM_TARBALL_BLACKLIST

This syntax works for BM_TARBALL_TARGETS:

Backup-Manager/backup-manager.conf.tpl

Lines 149 to 155 in 4eea33d

	# If one or more of the targets contain a space, use the array:
	declare -a BM_TARBALL_TARGETS
	BM_TARBALL_TARGETS[0]="/etc"
	BM_TARBALL_TARGETS[1]="/boot"
	export BM_TARBALL_TARGETS