regex + sbackup

dave s ubuntu at pusspaws.net
Tue Feb 14 22:13:35 UTC 2006


> > >
> > > In my setup it excludes using the regex
> > >
> > > /home/[^/]+?/\.thumbnails
> > >
> > > which I assume would exclude and .thumbnails directory under /home/.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > Todd
> >
> > I tried ...
> >
> > /home/dave/test/^data$
> >
> > and still no go. Does your reg ex actually work. Have you tested it ?
>
> My guess is you'd just use the example I gave and replace .thumbnails
> with data, since the name of the directory you want to exclude is
> data.
>
> i.e.,
>
> /home/[^/]+?/\data
>
> Todd

Unfortunately still no go.

/home/dave/test/[^/]+?/\data

I only queried if your regex worked because you said you assumed it would 
exclude the .thumbnails directories.

Cheers

dave






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