On 07/30/13 20:43, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > Does --exclude follow the same rules as rsync? I couldn't find > explicit details in the man page for tarsnap or tarsnap.conf (or the > website). Am I not looking in the right place?
They follow shell globbing rules. > In particular: > Suppose I have a filesystem /foo and don't want /foo/tmp to be > backuped. Should I specify --exclude=foo/tmp or --exclude=/foo/tmp? > I can't use --exclude=tmp because there are other directories called > "tmp". You want --exclude=foo/tmp, since the leading '/' is stripped before paths are compared against exclusions. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
