Deletion not expected

[Klabuser]

Hi !

Version : 4.3

I encountered a behaviour I couldn't understand. This is my config file :

[/home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done]
relaxed = yes
include = '*.xbstream'
weekly = 3
monthly = 2
yearly = always
ionice = idle

And this is the behaviour rotate-backups had when launched :

Sep 27 12:04:02 backup-0001 rotate-backups[19632]: INFO Scanning /home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done for backups ..
Sep 27 12:04:02 backup-0001 rotate-backups[19632]: INFO Found 7 timestamped backups in /home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done.
Sep 27 12:04:02 backup-0001 rotate-backups[19632]: INFO Preserving /home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done/2017-01-13:22-24-57.xbstream (matches 'yearly' retention period) ..
Sep 27 12:04:02 backup-0001 rotate-backups[19632]: INFO Deleting /home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done/2017-05-17-mc_log_range ..
Sep 27 12:04:03 backup-0001 rotate-backups[19632]: INFO Deleting /home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done/2017-05-17-mc_log_range.tar.gz ..
Sep 27 12:04:03 backup-0001 rotate-backups[19632]: INFO Preserving /home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done/2017-08-04:04-45-05.xbstream (matches 'monthly' retention period) ..
Sep 27 12:04:03 backup-0001 rotate-backups[19632]: INFO Preserving /home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done/2017-09-09:19-48-41.xbstream (matches 'weekly' and 'monthly' retention periods) ..
Sep 27 12:04:03 backup-0001 rotate-backups[19632]: INFO Preserving /home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done/2017-09-20:07-17-24.xbstream (matches 'weekly' retention period) ..
Sep 27 12:04:03 backup-0001 rotate-backups[19632]: INFO Preserving /home/backup/data/mysql/production/scrap/fr/done/2017-09-27-mc_log_range (matches 'weekly' retention period) ..

The folder 2017-05-17-mc_log_range and the file 2017-05-17-mc_log_range.tar.gz were deleted even if they don't match the pattern '*.xbstream' defined in the config file.

Am I doing something wrong ?

[xolox]

Hi @Klabuser and thanks for the feedback. Looking at your configuration file I notice two problems:

1. It contains the option name include but rotate-backups is expecting include-list instead.
2. The pattern is quoted in strings but rotate-backups is expecting a literal pattern (without the quotes).

This made me realize that the include-list and exclude-list weren't documented anywhere, so in b150a23 I documented all of the supported configuration file options and their expected values (e.g. that the patterns shouldn't be quoted). This information is now available in the online documentation.

I'm going to close this issue now because the actual include/exclude list processing is working fine, it was just the documentation that was insufficient.