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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
On 09/20/13 18:34, Peter McLachlan wrote:The --exclude option doesn't work with absolute paths, since they don't match
> 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 relative paths of objects being stored. Take the leading / off your exclude
lines and it should work.
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Colin Percival
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