regex + sbackup

[Robbo]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 20:47 +0000, dave s wrote:
> OK this may be dumb but ...
> 
> I have installed sbackup, it backs us up some directories but I do not want it 
> to backup any sub directories called just 'data'
> 
> I used the regex option and entered
> 
> ^data$
> 
> It still backs up data directories ... there goes 1GB ... If I change the 
> regex to just plain
> 
> data
> 
> it works fine but it also excludes 'process_data' python directories.
> 
> Either I have my regex wrong (very possible) or sbackup is not working the way 
> it should. 
> 
> Can anone shed any light on this problem before I commit a bug report ?

I don't use sbackup, but perhaps the regex uses the full path and not
just the folder name.  Try these if thats the case...

/data$
^.*/data$