Re: How are --exclude patterns interpreted?

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

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.

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Colin Percival
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