Re: [rdiff-backup-users] exclude, use of *

[peter]

On 05/31/2015 06:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 05/30/2015 02:05 PM, peter wrote:
> > i tried:
> > - /home/julius/.mozilla/firefox/*/extensions/
> >
> >
> > in my exclude file to exclude all the extension directories for all the
> > firefox accounts.
> > i was hoping * to work for "anydir", but apparently it doesnt.
> >
> > rdiff is still searching my 2 firefox profiles and adding files.
>
> Let's see the whole command line.
>
> For an exclusion to be effective, it needs to come (in the argument
> list) _before_ any directive that would cause that file or directory
> to be included.



rdiff-backup -v5 --print-statistics --exclude-filelist rdiff-excludes 
/home/julius/ $host::${backup_folder}



rdiff-excludes:
- /home/julius/.cache
- /home/julius/.local
- /home/julius/tmp
- /home/julius/Downloads
- /home/julius/.mozilla/firefox/*/extensions/



my thinking was, include everything and exclude some parts like i would 
do with rsync.