On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:49:48PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

> I'm backing up my local machine using rsync; see configuration below.
> Despite the exclusion, I still get /home/steve/Packages in my backup.
> I tried also '/home/steve/Packages/*' with the same result.  What's
> the magic?

Well, experimentation indicates that I need to strip off
the prefix; i.e. change from

 $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
   '/home' => [
     '/home/steve/Packages'
   ]
 };

to

 $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
   '/home' => [
     'steve/Packages'
   ]
 };


Regards,
-Steve

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