[Box Backup] Configuration - Exclude folder except certain folder/file inside?

[Ben Summers]

On 6 Oct 2006, at 07:55, Tobias Balle-Petersen wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I want to backup only user_name/Library/Mail (a folder) and  
> user_name/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist (a file) from  
> the Library folder in my users home dirs (OS X). Nothing from  
> user_name/Library is being backed up with the configuration shown  
> below.
>
> All the ExcludeDirsRegex work as expected. The  
> AlwaysIncludeDirsRegex and AlwaysIncludeFilesRegex seems to be  
> ignored.
>
> Any ideas?

This line

>  ExcludeDirsRegex = /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Library

stops user_name/Library being scanned, so it never even considers  
user_name/Library/Mail as a candidate for backing up.

So, you have to go down one level. Remove that line, then use

ExcludeFilesRegex = /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Library/.*
ExcludeDirsRegex = /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Library/.*
AlwaysIncludeDirsRegex = Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Library/Mail

and extend to get the Preferences file too.

Ben




>
>
> My conf:
>
> homes
> {
>  Path = /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes
>  ExcludeFilesRegex = .*\.MP3$
>  ExcludeFilesRegex = .*\.mp3$
>  ExcludeFilesRegex = .*\.M4A$
>  ExcludeFilesRegex = .*\.m4a$
>  ExcludeFile = .DS_Store
>  AlwaysIncludeDirsRegex = /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Library/ 
> Mail
>  AlwaysIncludeFilesRegex = /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Library/ 
> Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
>  ExcludeDirsRegex = /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Library
>  ExcludeDirsRegex =  /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Music
>  ExcludeDirsRegex =  /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Movies
>  ExcludeDirsRegex =  /Volumes/noriB1/opendir/homes/.*/Applications
> }
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tobias
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