Re: [BackupPC-users] Exclude not working as expected

[Bowie B. <Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com>]

Mark Wass wrote:
> Hi Bowie
>
> Thanks for clearing that up. So does that mean I should also amend these
> other excludes by putting a forward slash in front?
>
> 'etc/fstab', ==> '/etc/fstab',
>
> 'var/cache/apt/archives/*', ==> '/var/cache/apt/archives/*',
>   

Yes, anything that should only match at the beginning of the path should
start with a slash.  This works in much the same way it does on the
command line:

# cd proc

This will take you into any directory called 'proc' that is available in
whatever the current directory happens to be.

# cd /proc

This explicitly takes you to the '/proc' directory no matter where you
start from.

-- 
Bowie