Re: [Duplicity-talk] Excluding file patterns, regardless of the file location

[Kenneth Loafman]

Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> Here is the problem:
> 
> I currently use rsync to backup my files to a local ssh server. The
> issue is that rsync does not encrypt, compress and backup, and I am
> considering moving to duplicity as my tool of choice. I am using this on
> Mac OSX and I already use duplicity (without the exclude spec) for my
> Amazon S3 backups. They work, so duplicity is functional on my platform.
> Hence, what follows is not a result of any OS-application snarls.
> 
> I tried to whip up a script to do this.
> 
> I am getting stuck at a specific requirement that I have (this uses
> --exclude-globbing-filelist option). I want to exclude ALL ps, bmp,
> tiff, avi, etc. files no matter where they are located.
> 
> So, I created an exclude file:
> 
> - *.avi
> - *.ps
> - .*.bmp
> - *.mbox
> ...

You need to use the format '**/*.avi' and it should work.

...Thanks,
...Ken

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