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Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes

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Hi

One of the issues we've encountered following a recent Jessie upgrade, 
(around 5th September) is an rsync script seems to have changed behaviour.

We've been using rsync for a daily automated incremental backup and have 
three scripts to maintain an archive of daily snapshots for a week; 
weekly snapshots for a month; and 6 monthly snapshots (files are 
irretrievable 6months after they been deleted from the backed up server).

We've two pairs of FileServer and BackupServer, rsyncd runs on 
FileServer and the following daily script on BackupServer

#!/bin/bash

# This script is called daily from cron to perform overnight backups
# The full paths of the programs used in this script
     rm=/bin/rm
     mv=/bin/mv
     cp=/bin/cp
     rsync=/usr/bin/rsync

# Good rsync options for FileServer_backups.
     rsync_opts="-av --delete --delete-excluded"

# The name of the file containing the rsync connection password
     password="--password-file=/etc/.rs_pass"

# A list of files and directories that do not need to be backed up
      exclude_list="music funstuff cma/TransitStuff lost+found/"
      excludes=""
      for exclude in $exclude_list; do
      excludes="$excludes --exclude=$exclude"
  done

# define NOW for adding date to rsync log filename eg. FileServer.date
     NOW=$(date +"%F.%H:%M")

# Move all other backups up a level. Copy previous backup to /backup/daily.
# Backup FileServer according to the [rsync] sections of the rsyncd.conf 
files
# on FileServer. Use the password given in /etc/.rs_pass. Dump any 
output and
# error messages to /var/rsync/FileServer
     mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.5 /home/backup/snapshot/day.6
     mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.4 /home/backup/snapshot/day.5
     mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.3 /home/backup/snapshot/day.4
     mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.2 /home/backup/snapshot/day.3
     mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.1 /home/backup/snapshot/day.2
     cp -al /home/backup/home /home/backup/snapshot/day.1
     $rsync $rsync_opts $password FileServer::rsync \
/home/backup/home/ > /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log

The incremental backups have worked seamlessly for over 10 years but 
recently, possibly related to the upgrade of Debian Jessie, the exclude 
options have ceased to have effect.

I've dug around the docs but haven't found anything relevant. Any 
suggestions as to what may be wrong?

Thanks

Clive


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Clive Menzies
http://freecriticalthinking.org

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Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> - 2016-09-17 12:50 +0200
  Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-09-17 14:30 +0200
  Re: Longstanding rsync script no longer excludes - SOLVED Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> - 2016-09-17 18:20 +0200
    Crontab doesn't complete a script - was Re: Longstanding rsync script  no longer excludes Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 13:20 +0200
      Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-09-19 13:40 +0200
        Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 23:20 +0200
          Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script - SOLVED Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> - 2016-09-20 00:00 +0200
          Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-09-20 00:10 +0200
            Re: Crontab doesn't complete a script Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> - 2016-09-20 01:10 +0200

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