[rdiff-backup-users] Include/Exclude advice

[Ron Leach]

List, good morning,

We use rdiff-backup to regularly backup our debian file-server, and we 
wanted to additionally run a partial backup - into the same backup 
directory - much more frequently for the more-volatile files (all the 
files in our current projects).  But when following the example from
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html

rdiff-backup --include /srv/files/currentprojects --exclude '**' 
/srv/files /backup-location

rdiff-backup also seemed to make increments of all the other files in 
the *other* directories under /srv/files.  I didn't expect this - I 
had thought that the example I used would exclude all the directories 
below /srv/files other than /srv/files/currentprojects .

I've read the man page especially the FILE SELECTION section, but I 
think I have misunderstood the file include and exclude options, or 
misunderstood the example.  I admit that I didn't find the man page 
easy to follow.

Is it possible to backup:
- only /srv/files/currentprojects,
- into the same backup directory that our full backup of /srv/files is 
stored,
- with the intention that the currentprojects directory is backed-up 
much more frequently
- but would still be restored if ever a complete restoration of 
/srv/files were needed?

Grateful for any comment or advice,

regards, Ron