[Box Backup] Regex exclusions

Achim J. Latz achim+box at qustodium.net
Thu Nov 17 12:55:45 GMT 2011


Hello Chris:

On 30/09/2011 00:55, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Achim,
>
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Achim J. Latz wrote:
>
>>> 1) I seem to remember that I read somewhere that the exclusions are
>>> specific to every platform: is the syntax really different, even
>>> though we use PCRE on all platforms? It would seem like a great idea
>>> to have a universal set of exclusions that come by default with
>>> bbackupd.conf, and can then be built upon by the user.
>
> I think we used to use a different regexp library on Windows, but I
> think now we use PCRE everywhere so it's no longer a different syntax.

OK, so ideally the following pages could be updated (unified even) and 
simplified:

<http://www.boxbackup.org/wiki/ConfiguringAClient#ExcludingFilesandDirectoriesfromtheBackup>
<http://www.boxbackup.org/wiki/Win32Regex>

> However of course the exclusions would be completely different.

Maybe something like this 
<http://www.ccs.uottawa.ca/software/tsm/lists.html> would be an 
interesting addition to the Box Backup wiki, so that people could pull 
their preferred settings via "copy & paste", perhaps even straight from 
a page linked to from the above tutorial?

>>> 2) Having said that, let's compare notes on the exclusion lists that
>>> might (hopefully) become part of the web page documentation [1, 2] or
>>> even the "standard distribution". What do you think about the
>>> following ones for Windows. Please note that some are commented, some
>>> might be wrong, certainly not all have been tested:
>
> I'm happy to include them, but don't have any particular preferences at
> the moment, sorry.

OK, we will work on that ;-)

Achim

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