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Hello, I'm having problems figuring out how to exclude files from a backup.

For instance I'm backing up an entire tree and buried inside that tree
is a file called Outlook.ost that I'd like to exclude since it is
basically a temp file. However when I put in --exclude "*.ost" I get
an error that says that nothing in the base directory matches that
string. That is correct since the *.ost is buried.

So, how do I do this?

Thanks,
Mike

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IIRC, with double asterisks. Like so:

--exclude "**.[mM][pP]3" --exclude "**/prf*.tmp"

Works for me...

Regards
Maarten

On 10/12/11 20:01, Michael Westman wrote:
Hello, I'm having problems figuring out how to exclude files from a backup.

For instance I'm backing up an entire tree and buried inside that tree
is a file called Outlook.ost that I'd like to exclude since it is
basically a temp file. However when I put in --exclude "*.ost" I get
an error that says that nothing in the base directory matches that
string. That is correct since the *.ost is buried.

So, how do I do this?

Thanks,
Mike

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Seems to be working. Thank you.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Maarten J H van den Berg
<maarten < at > kratz.nl> wrote:

IIRC, with double asterisks. Like so:

--exclude "**.[mM][pP]3"  --exclude "**/prf*.tmp"

Works for me...

Regards
Maarten

On 10/12/11 20:01, Michael Westman wrote:
Hello, I'm having problems figuring out how to exclude files from a backup.

For instance I'm backing up an entire tree and buried inside that tree
is a file called Outlook.ost that I'd like to exclude since it is
basically a temp file.  However when I put in --exclude "*.ost" I get
an error that says that nothing in the base directory matches that
string.  That is correct since the *.ost is buried.

So, how do I do this?

Thanks,
Mike

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