Basic help on backup-dir & filter_file

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Hi everyone,

Hope this is of help to someone else out there too. I am new to rclone and have some basic understanding of the commandline but had been banging my head against the commandline prompt for the past 2 hours… I had setup rclone config successfully and was able to do basic backups but am running into issues with these two flags below. Any guidance / help will be much appreciatedPreformatted text!

[Backup-Dir]
rclone copy "c:\My_Documents" "crypt:" --backup-dir "crypt:/sessions/[dynamic date from cmd]/"

Am I missing something here? From logs, it keeps telling me that the destination and backup cannot overlap. For what it’s worth, “Crypt” is encrypted and maps to a rclone-backup/ folder on ACD.

[Filter File]
in the above command, I had pointed rclone to c:\My_Documents but I had really only wanted 3 folders within that directory (and also exclude some sub-folders in Folder A). Is the right way to do this by putting down the following in the filter_file?

+ c:\My_Documents/Folder_A/**
+ c:\My_Documents/Folder_B/**
+ c:\My_Documents/Folder_C/**
- c:\My_Documents/**
- c:\My_Documents/Folder_A/Sub-FolderA1/

Expected output on “crypt:” when I do a “ls”
‘Folder_A/ shows this folder and also everything inside it EXCEPT Sub-FolderA1
Folder_B/ shows this folder and also everything inside it
Folder_C/ shows this folder and also everything inside it’

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The destination that you are putting your backups in is in fact included in the files you are trying to copy. You can’t do that. This would work, however:

rclone copy “c:\My_Documents” “crypt:My_Documents/” --backup-dir “crypt:/sessions/[dynamic date from cmd]/”

I believe the following is what you want as far as order. I am not sure about syntax though for windows paths. The filter works from top to bottom and stops for each file on a match. If the Sub-FolderA1 was below the Folder A then it would have already matched that line and be included.

  • c:\My_Documents/Folder_A/Sub-FolderA1/
  • c:\My_Documents/Folder_A/**
  • c:\My_Documents/Folder_B/**
  • c:\My_Documents/Folder_C/**
  • c:\My_Documents/**
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