Re: exclude problem

[On 19 May, @11:17, Vasiliy wrote in "[hdup-user] exclude problem ..."]
> Hello. I have hdup 1.6.14.
> My few filesystems:
> 
> Filesystem          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a             99183    50446    40803    55%    /
> /dev/ad0s1f          31374648 26492437  2372240    92%    /usr
> /dev/da0s1e           8617359  7343347   584624    93%    /var
> /dev/ad3s1e          37883534 18318388 16534464    53%    /usr/home/homepages/solaris/mp3/hdd
> sneef:/usr2/mp3      38838312 32024700  4840704    87%    /usr/home/homepages/solaris/mp3/sneef
> sneef:/var2/ftp/mp3  40316280 20637620 17630660    54%    /usr/home/homepages/solaris/mp3/sneef2
> dos-ndf-1:/www      230207220  6272876 223934344     3%    /backup
> 
> My hdup.conf:
> 
> [global]
> archive dir = /backup
> user = root
> compression = gzip
> tar = /usr/local/bin/tar
> exclude = lost+found, /proc
> overwrite = yes
> always backup = yes
> find = /usr/bin/find
> log = on
> one filesystem = on
> 
> [home]
> exclude = /usr/home/homepages/solaris/mp3
> dir = /root, /usr/home
> 
> i want backup without ".mp3"`s ;]
> but, started hdup is backuping all of /usr/home (~70Gb!)

exclude directly uses the --exclude from tar. This is a globbing file pattern
(not a regexp!). Be sure to read the manpage of tar to understand what exclude=
exactly does. 

/me thinks that an exclude = *.mp3 is more to your liking.

grtz Miek