[Borgbackup] Cannot exclude directories

Marian Beermann public at enkore.de
Tue Aug 22 04:42:02 EDT 2017


Hi Nick,

On 22.08.2017 01:12, Nick Gilmour wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I cannot exclude any directories with the option
> **--exclude-from** which I have defined in a text file. The directories
> in the text file are like this:
> ...
> "/home/*/.cache"
> "*/.Trash-*"
> ...

Quoting / escaping doesn't work in exclude files, because Borg never
processes quoting / escaping — it's done by the shell on the command
line or in scripts.

Cheers, Marian


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