Re: [Duplicity-talk] exclude dotfiles or config dirs

[Kenneth Loafman]

Christian Degenkolb wrote:
> hi
> 
> i started playing around with duplicity to manage my homedir backups
> but now i ran into a problem. how can i get duplicity to exclude all
> dotfiles or config directories and include only selected ones.
> 
> i tried with --include-filelist and the following file
> 
> /home/user/
> - /home/user/.*
> + /home/user/.config/
> + /home/user/.gnupg/
> 
> but duplicity still adds not selected directories.
> is there another way to achieve my task?

You need to use --include-globbing-filelist to get it to understand the
special characters.  The --include-filelist is strictly a list of files
without globbing.

...Ken

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