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

[peter]

On 05/31/2015 06:48 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 05/31/2015 03:13 AM, peter wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That option needs to be "--exclude-globbing-filelist", and you need
> to get rid of that "/" at the end of "extensions/".

the first run did show "extensions". maybe rdiff was just removing it 
from the new backup
thank you very much.