Re: Exclude patterns in tarsnaprc

[Warren Guy <warren@guy.net.au>]

On 08/06/14 18:02, Bob Williams wrote:
> I'm trying to fine tune my backups by adding some exclude entries to
> my ~/.tarsnaprc file.
>
> I've added some lines such as:
>
> exclude /home/bob/this
> exclude /home/bob/that
> exclude /home/bob/the_other*
>
> Is this the correct format?

I believe the wildcard format is correct. But, by default, leading
slashes are stripped from the backup path, so you might need to drop
your leading '/' for these to work?

Warren