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Dar2 Backup and Excludes

Offline icemannz

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Dar2 Backup and Excludes
« on: January 12, 2010, 02:12:01 AM »
Hi all,
I have setup a Dar2 Backup and it works ok but the customer has added a great deal of files.
So I need to exclude some directories from the backup.
These directories I need to exclude have spaces in the file names and now the customer is
using them, so I am not really able to remove the spaces.
I have used the server-manager panel and added the exclusions but they are not working.
I suspect I am not doing it right.
I have tried the following but none of these work and it still backs up the files.
Can someone see what I am doing wrong ?

home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/2\ \ Archive\ 2010/
home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/3\ \ Archive\ 2009/
home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/4\ \ Archive\ 2008/
home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/5\ \ Archive\ 2007/
home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/6\ \ Archive\ 2006/

home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/2*
home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/3*
home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/4*
home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/5*
home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/6*

/home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/2  Archive 2010
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/3  Archive 2009
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/4  Archive 2008
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/5  Archive 2007
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/novoserver/files/6  Archive 2006

Offline icemannz

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Re: Dar2 Backup and Excludes
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 02:23:54 AM »
Hi all,
solved the problem, the excludes must be just for files.
there is a Prune directories area and putting the directories in there worked :-)