[Box Backup] Regular expression error

Ben Summers boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:34:11 +0000


On 15 Nov 2004, at 17:22, AH SING Nicolas wrote:

> Hi,
> when I specify the exclude directive ExcludeFilesRegex as in the 
> example, an exception (1/31) is thrown
>
> I declare my backup directory in my bbackupd.conf like this :
>
> BackupLocations
> {
>        home-nicolas-sav
>        {
>                Path = /home/nicolas/sav
>                ExcludeFilesRegex = *.(mp3|MP3)$
>        }
> }


1/31 means "Bad regular expression" (check the ExceptionCodes.txt file 
in the distribution root after a make). Do a man re_format to see the 
format required on your platform.

Ben