[Box Backup] Wildcards in BackupLocations

James O'Gorman boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:32:49 +0000


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:24:49PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>  Unfortunately I think these settings will not work:

Mmm, I thought something wasn't quite right there...

>  and ExcludeDirsRegex = .* will exclude all the user directories, so Box will 
>  never descend into them and find the My Documents within. Also, I think (but 
>  I'm not sure) that the regex must match the entire path, not just the end of 
>  it. So this configuration might work better:
> 
>    Path = C:\Documents and Settings
>    ExcludeDirsRegex = C:\Documents and Settings\[^\]*\.*
>    AlwaysIncludeDirsRegex = .*\My Documents

That makes much more sense.

James