Re: [BackupPC-devel] Getting excludes right...

[Michael S. <ms...@ch...>]

On 2017-04-29 08:05, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Ok, getting a little closer... I changed the configuration to:
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>   '*' => [
>     '/home/*/.cache',
>     ''
>   ]
> };
> 
> And ran the dump from the command line and got:
> 
> --exclude=/home/\*/.cache --exclude= <host>:/home/<user>/
> 
> It seemed to generate two excludes but the second one seems to be
> malformed with the space after the = and I'm not sure it's even
> needed...
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard

... which begs the question, why did you include it?  Why not just use 
the first exclude, which seems perfectly valid, i.e.

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
    '*' => [
      '/home/*/.cache'
    ]
  };

I'm genuinely baffled.