On 06/09/14 03:39, Warren Guy wrote: > On 09/06/14 08:03, Bob Williams wrote: >> If the leading slashes are stripped by tarsnap automatically, then it >> probably doesn't matter whether I leave them in or not? > > Stripped automatically by tarsnap from the backup path when doing the > backup. So, your absolute exclude path `/home/foo*' won't match the > backup path `home/foo_bar'. > > However I could be mistaken. You could let us know?
The paths being backed up have leading / characters stripped. I'm pretty sure this happens before the paths are compared against exclude patterns. I'm pretty sure exclude patterns don't have leading / characters stripped. ... if I'm misunderstanding what the code does, please let me know! -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
