Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Exclude question

[dean gaudet]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Olav Langeland wrote:

> Quick question on exclude. I want to backup /jail which has several
> subdirs each with a proc/ directory, can I make a general exclude for
> all the proc dirs or do I have to specify each one?

you probably want --exclude '/jail/*/proc' ... must be quoted so it isn't 
expanded by the shell.

there's also --exclude-other-filesystems, which might just do it for you 
depending on your layout.

-dean