[Box Backup] spaces (and other ugliness) in Exclude paths

James O'Gorman boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:43:22 +0100


Brent Saner wrote:
> James O'Gorman wrote:
> | Can you post what you've got in the config file now, and what you've
> tried?
> 
> what's in now:
> 
> 1        foo
> 2        {
> 3                Path = /foo/bar/foobar
> 4                ExcludeDir = /foo/bar/foobar/fobz/"TWO words"
> 5        }

Had you tried it just as:
	ExcludeDir = /foo/bar/foobar/fobz/TWO words

I'm not sure if that would work or not.

> | You might need to use ExcludeDirsRegex instead of ExcludeDir.
> |
> | e.g. ExcludeDirsRegex /some/dir\swith\sspaces
> 
> thanks! i'll give that a shot and come running back with my tail between
> my legs if it doesn't work. :D

Let us know either way, it'll be nice to have in the archives :-)

James