Paul Fox writes:
> i'm resending this question, since i don't believe i saw a
> response. is anyone else successfully using BackupFilesExclude
> with the tar method?
>
> (i'd simply add the "--exclude" args to the tarcmd itself, except
> i see from the docs that there's trickery involved in escaping
> wildcard characters.)
>
> i wrote:
> > > > i'd like to be able to flag any file or directory that i want
> > > > backuppc to skip by adding a "._nobackup_" suffix to its name.
> > > >
> > > > will this do the trick? (backup method is tar)
> > > >
> > > > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/proc'. '*._nobackup_' };
>
> craig wrote:
> > >
> > > You need a comma instead of a period. Otherwise it should work.
Actually, you need [] instead of {}, in addition to a comma
instead of a period:
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = [ '/proc', '*._nobackup_' ];
Look at the full tar command at the top of the XferLOG file.
Craig
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