Oops, looks like I was hasty. I took the quotes off and it works, although I notice that adding a space at the end of a line stops the line from working. I originally didn’t have quotes and added them when it didn’t work, so maybe the originals had spaces. Regards -- William
On 27 Jun 2014, at 14:08, William Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I am getting the hang of Tarsnap and would like to add > a list of files and directories to exclude to .tarsnaprc. > However the list of excludes is not honoured. I can add > the same entries to the command line and exclusion works. > > Here is my current file: > > keyfile ~/.tarsnap.key > cachedir ~/.tarsnap.cache/ > humanize-numbers > nodump > > # Print statistics when creating or deleting archives > print-stats > > # Create a checkpoint once per GB of uploaded data. > checkpoint-bytes 1G > > exclude "Build/" > exclude "XCode/" > exclude "local/" > exclude "*~" > exclude "*.o" > exclude "*.DS_Store" > exclude "*.dSYM" > > The file is definitely being processed (adding an invalid > entry results in an error) but none of the exclusions works. > > I am using OS-X 10.9.3. > > $ tarsnap --version > tarsnap 1.0.35 > > Thanks for your help > -- > William > > >
