Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Exclude files

[Michael Westman]

Seems to be working.  Thank you.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Maarten J H van den Berg
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> IIRC, with double asterisks. Like so:
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> --exclude "**.[mM][pP]3"  --exclude "**/prf*.tmp"
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> Works for me...
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> Regards
> Maarten
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> On 10/12/11 20:01, Michael Westman wrote:
>> Hello, I'm having problems figuring out how to exclude files from a backup.
>>
>> For instance I'm backing up an entire tree and buried inside that tree
>> is a file called Outlook.ost that I'd like to exclude since it is
>> basically a temp file.  However when I put in --exclude "*.ost" I get
>> an error that says that nothing in the base directory matches that
>> string.  That is correct since the *.ost is buried.
>>
>> So, how do I do this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
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