[Box Backup] Exclude Dirs

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Matt,

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Matt Brown wrote:

> Hope Xmas & New Year was a good one.

Yeah, I'm still recovering and I didn't even drink :-) Hope it was for you 
too.

> Just a quick question if I may, I backup a server for a client who does 
> not wish to backup certain directories.
>
> The structure is like:
>
> /data/shared
> /data/shared/apps
> /data/shared/apps/archive
> /data/mgt
> /data/mgt/archive
>
> etc
>
> Is it possible to do a global exclude for the archive directory - which 
> could appear under any folder/dir on the server ? without adding 
> explicit ExcludeDir = /data/shared/apps/archive etc for each instance ?
>
> I know its possible to regex for files in this way, but was not sure if 
> it would work for Dir names ?

Yes, use ExcludeDirsRegex. Works just like ExcludeFilesRegex.

Cheers, Chris.
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