Hi,
Thanks to Eric and Patrick for their kind responses. It works perfectly now. Garjola. On Mon 25-Nov-2024 at 18:48:36 +01, Patrik Dufresne <pat...@ikus-soft.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for reaching rdiff-backup community ! > > Will be happy to help. If you want to exclude all folder named ".pixi" from > your backup. You need to add --exclude "**/.pixi". > > "**" Will match any subdirectories. > > You could read more about it in the man page. > > > On Mon., Nov. 25, 2024, 10:05 Garjola Dindi, <garj...@garjola.net> wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I have been using rdiff-backup happily for some years now without any >> issue. So thanks! >> >> I am updating my use to exclude a set of directories that are created when >> using virtual environments for python development. These directories are >> created into the source trees and they are always called '.pixi'. Since >> they are scattered all over the place when one has many projects, I can’t >> use full paths or even relative paths to a common base dir. >> >> I first tried using --exclude '**.pixi', but they are still present in the >> backups. I don't know if there is some interaction with other >> include/exclude options, so I have tried using --exclude-regexp '.pixi' >> and the result is the same. >> >> I am a bit ashamed of asking the question, but I have read the man page >> and done some research on the internet and I still struggle to understand >> what the problem is. >> >> Thanks in advance for your help. >> >> G. >> >> >> > --
