On 2017-04-29 08:05, Richard Shaw wrote: > Ok, getting a little closer... I changed the configuration to: > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { > '*' => [ > '/home/*/.cache', > '' > ] > }; > > And ran the dump from the command line and got: > > --exclude=/home/\*/.cache --exclude= <host>:/home/<user>/ > > It seemed to generate two excludes but the second one seems to be > malformed with the space after the = and I'm not sure it's even > needed... > > Thanks, > Richard
... 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-devel mailing list BackupPC-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/