regex + sbackup

[Todd Slater]

On 2/14/06, dave s <ubuntu at pusspaws.net> wrote:
> OK this may be dumb but ...
>
> I have installed sbackup, it backs us up some directories but I do not want it
> to backup any sub directories called just 'data'
>
> I used the regex option and entered
>
> ^data$
>
> It still backs up data directories ... there goes 1GB ... If I change the
> regex to just plain
>
> data
>
> it works fine but it also excludes 'process_data' python directories.
>
> Either I have my regex wrong (very possible) or sbackup is not working the way
> it should.
>
> Can anone shed any light on this problem before I commit a bug report ?
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave

In my setup it excludes using the regex

/home/[^/]+?/\.thumbnails

which I assume would exclude and .thumbnails directory under /home/.

HTH,

Todd