Re: [rdiff-backup-users] exclude, use of *

[Robert Nichols]

On 05/31/2015 03:13 AM, peter wrote:
> rdiff-backup -v5 --print-statistics --exclude-filelist rdiff-excludes
> /home/julius/ $host::${backup_folder}
>
>
>
> rdiff-excludes:
> - /home/julius/.cache
> - /home/julius/.local
> - /home/julius/tmp
> - /home/julius/Downloads
> - /home/julius/.mozilla/firefox/*/extensions/
>
>
>
> my thinking was, include everything and exclude some parts like i would
> do with rsync.

That option needs to be "--exclude-globbing-filelist", and you need
to get rid of that "/" at the end of "extensions/".

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