this question ("how do i exclude X and Z without excluding Y") seems
to come up a lot -- i've certainly asked it in the past.
if seems like it wouldn't be too hard (for someone more perl-savvy
than i am) to create a small utility that could be used for testing.
it would be given a list of patterns (just as bob as given it below), and
it would filters a list of files from stdin (the output of "find -print",
for instance), emitting only those names which would be backed up. i
suppose it would need knowledge of the underlying backup transport (tar
vs. rsync), as well.
okay, maybe not a trivial tool. but it would sure be nice to be able
to do a dry run of a set of patterns in order to test them, before
actually disturbing one's backuppc config.
paul
Bob Katz wrote:
> Hi, guys. I want to exclude any file that contains "Previews.lrdata".
>
> For example:
>
> Lightroom Catalog/Lightroom 5/Lightroom 5
> Catalog/Old/original1.Lightroom 5 Catalog-2 Previews.lrdata/9/9965
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Another challenging exclude needs to contain "PreviewsDefective.lrdata"
>
>
> Lightroom Catalog/Lightroom 5/Lightroom 5 Catalog/original1.Lightroom 5
> Catalog-4 Smart PreviewsDefective.lrdata/9/9E74
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Would it be as simple as using *Previews.lrdata*, for example:
>
>
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> '*' => [
> '*Previews.lrdata*',
> 'Lightroom ACR cache/',
> 'Library/Caches/',
> '*.lrprev',
> 'Lightroom Catalog/Backups/',
> 'Library/Logs/CrashReporter/',
> 'Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/'
> ]
>
>
> ------------------------
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
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