Re: Exclude patterns in tarsnaprc

[Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk>]

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On 10/06/14 07:24, Colin Percival wrote:
> 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!
> 
Well, you should know. ;-)

I think I'll strip all those leading '/' from my exclude patterns
before continuing with this backup.

Bob
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