[Box Backup] Regex causes bbackupd to stop working

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Tobias,

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Tobias Roth wrote:

> I just discovered that bbackupd stops doing any backupping when I add a 
> particular line in my previously working config:
> 
>     ExcludeFilesRegex = *.core$
> 
> If I add this, no more backupping is done upon my bbackupctl sync, and 
> what's of course worse, no error is spewn out. Hence, it took me a while 
> to find the culprit in my config.

What version of Box Backup are you using? 0.11 should report an error in 
the regular expression (in the logs, not in bbackupctl).

> By the way, what would be the correct line to exclude all core files, in 
> all subdirectories, if not what I used above?

ExcludeFilesRegex = \.core$

should work.

Cheers, Chris.
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