RE: [rdiff-backup-users] Exclude question

[Olav Langeland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dean gaudet [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 5. januar 2005 23:11
> To: Olav Langeland
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Exclude question
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Olav Langeland wrote:
> 
> > Quick question on exclude. I want to backup /jail which has several
> > subdirs each with a proc/ directory, can I make a general 
> exclude for
> > all the proc dirs or do I have to specify each one?
> 
> you probably want --exclude '/jail/*/proc' ... must be quoted 
> so it isn't 
> expanded by the shell.
> 
> there's also --exclude-other-filesystems, which might just do 
> it for you 
> depending on your layout.
> 
> -dean

Hi,

thanks for your reply, was helpful. I have also emailed a bit with Keith
Edmunds off-list which gave me some hints as well. 

Regards
Olav Langeland