Re: Getting excludes right...

Richard Shaw <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:48:45 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.devel
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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Michael Stowe <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> ... which begs the question, why did you include it?  Why not just use the
> first exclude, which seems perfectly valid, i.e.
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>    '*' => [
>      '/home/*/.cache'
>    ]
>  };
>
> I'm genuinely baffled.
>

For posterity I'll answer, since it stayed in the last incremental I
assumed it was not working.

Thanks,
Richard

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On S=
at, Apr 29, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Michael Stowe <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D=
"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]=
nsa.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D=
"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=
=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5"><br></div></div>
... which begs the question, why did you include it?=C2=A0 Why not just use=
 the first exclude, which seems perfectly valid, i.e.<span class=3D""><br>
<br>
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} =3D {<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0&#39;*&#39; =3D&gt; [<br>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0&#39;/home/*/.cache&#39;<br></span>
=C2=A0 =C2=A0]<br>
=C2=A0};<br>
<br>
I&#39;m genuinely baffled.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For posterit=
y I&#39;ll answer, since it stayed in the last incremental I assumed it was=
 not working.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Richard=C2=A0</div=
></div><br></div></div>

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