regex + sbackup

[dave s]

On Wednesday 15 Feb 2006 04:50, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> On 2/14/06, Darryl Clarke <smartssa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14/02/06, dave s <ubuntu at pusspaws.net> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 15 Feb 2006 02:02, Darryl Clarke wrote:
> > > > Wait, is the data path:
> > > > /home/dave/test/something/data
> > > > or
> > > > /home/dave/test/data?
> > >
> > > Yep Its this one
> > >
> > > > If it's the second, it's no wonder it didn't work ;)
> > > >
> > > > try:
> > > > /home/dave/[^/]+?/data
> > > >
> > > :) that works !
> > > :
> > > > this will exclude
> > > > /home/dave/[anything]/data
> > > > but not
> > > > /home/dave/data
> > > > or
> > > > /home/dave/[anything]/[something]/data
> > >
> > > because [^/]+?/ replaces one element in the path :)
> > >
> > > > I think this:
> > > > /home/dave/[.]+?/data
> > > >
> > > > should exclude
> > > > /home/dave/[anything/including/subfolders]/data
> > > >
> > > > but still not
> > > > /home/dave/data
> > >
> > > I see what you are saying
> > >
> > > > I don't think you're experiencing a bug, just some regex trickery.
> > >
> > > This regex stuff is a dark art. I got the path thing now and it works (
> > > a big thank you :)) but I still have one last regex problem.
> > >
> > >  /home/dave/[^/]+?/data
> > >
> > > excludes the data directorys but also my 'data_process' directories :(
> > > I changed my regex to
> > >
> > >  /home/dave/[^/]+?/data$
> > >
> > > to try and only exclude 'data' directories but all it did was allow
> > > both data and data_process directories.
> > >
> > > ...mmm...
> > >
> > > any ideas on this last one ?
> >
> > Hmm... that should work. the hardest part of this is knowing how
> > sbackup is actually comparing.  The fact that the last one doesn't
> > leads me to believe sbackup compares whole path name with a trailing /
> >
> > /home/dave/[^/]+?/data/$
>
> http://koyanet.lv/soc/sbackup.conf.example
> says:
> "
> # Comma-separated list of regular expressions to exclude from backup
> # use this to exclude certain types of files or directories
> #
> # Note: If any of these expressions matches within the whole pathname
> #	of the file, it will NOT be backuped. Keep this list as specific
> #	and as short as possible.
> "
>
> So I beleive it is the author's intentions being what they are, the OP
> may not be able to exclude "data" without also excluding, for example,
> all "database" directories/files.

Re-reading this paragraph I think you are right

>
> I love the rdiff-backup/rsync style +/- lists for exclusion/inclusion.
> Wish that were possible with sbackup.

Me to ;)

>
> Carthik.
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