secure remote backups

[Ben Escoto]

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>>>>> "JP" == Jason Piterak <Jason>
>>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:14:11 -0500

  JP> Ben, Haven't had a chance to dig into rdiff-backup lately, been
  JP> too busy with other things. But, I tried your idea of negative
  JP> --exclude regex parameters to do positive matches (eg: backup
  JP> all archive files) and couldn't get it to work...

  JP> Here's what I tried (regex courtesy of our local Perl guru):
  JP> --exclude '^(.*?\.(?!(tar|rpm|tgz|gz|z|bz2|Z)).*?|[^\.]*?)$'

Hmm, is it possible there is a bug in python 2.2's regular
expressions?  Please confirm, and if I'm not overlooking something
stupid I will submit a bug report on Python's web site.

    So, on my version of Python (v2.2b) I get this behavior:

>>> re.match('^a*?$', 'foo')
<SRE_Match object at 0x81841a0>

The expression ^a*?$ is only supposed to match strings composed
entirely of a's, but here it matches 'foo'.  In an earlier version of
Python (2.0c1):

>>> re.match('^a*?$', 'foo')
>>> 

    At least there is some inconsistency between versions.  Is the new
behavior a bug?  It would appear so, but I not really a regular
expression person (perhaps your perl guy could comment?).  Anyway, I
stumbled upon this because your expression above appears to match
everything the way python is interpreting it.


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