Thanks Colin!
[image: Mobify Logo]*Peter McLachlan, chief architect* Mobify – Powering the Adaptive Web mobify.com <http://www.mobify.com/> | @mobify <http://twitter.com/mobify> Passionate about the mobile web? Check out mobifycareers.com On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Colin Percival <[email protected]>wrote: > On 09/20/13 18:34, Peter McLachlan wrote: > > Tarsnap ignores my --exclude lines. Am I doing something wrong? Seems > OK from > > the the man page: > > > > /usr/local/bin/tarsnap -C / --exclude /root/.snorby-cloud --exclude > > /home/peter/tmp -c -f `date +\%Y-\%m-\%d.\%H.\%M` etc home usr/local > root > > The --exclude option doesn't work with absolute paths, since they don't > match > the relative paths of objects being stored. Take the leading / off your > exclude > lines and it should work. > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid >
