[Box Backup] ExcludeFilesRegex

[Henning Markussen]

>
> On 11 Jun 2005, at 08:15, Henning Markussen wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have some trouble with the ExcludeFilesRegex option on my CentOS
>> 4.0.
>>
>> bbackupd.conf:
>> --------------
>> home
>> {
>>  Path =  /home
>>  ExcludeFilesRegex = *.(iso|ISO)$
>> }
>> --------------
>> When trying this - it results in a
>>
>> Jun 11 09:06:15 mail bbackupd[9650]: Connection made, login successful
>> Jun 11 09:06:16 mail bbackupd[9650]: Exception caught (1/31), reset
>> state
>> and waiting to retry...
>>
>> What is wrong whith this ?
>
> ExceptionCodes.txt show 1/31 as BadRegularExpression.
>
>> I've tried with just *.iso but it is the same
>
> Your regex is not a POSIX regex. You need something like
>
>    .*\.(iso|ISO)$
>
> Type
>
>    man re_format
>
> for more details, as suggested by the comments in the generated .conf
> file.
>
>>
>> The goal is to backup the /home - but not .iso files in /home
>
> Should do the trick.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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It did due the trick.
Thanks for the help Ben.

- Henning