[Borgbackup] include and exclude patterns

[David Gasaway]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 11:05 PM Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     I am having problems figuring out how to include a directory within
> another directory where I do not want anything else.
>
> e.g, create a whole system backup for root "/" on a gentoo system
>
>         exclude /usr/portage (contains many files/directories)
>
>         include only /usr/portage/packages from that directory
>
> Can anyone suggest a simple way to do this?
>

Using --patterns-from format:

R /
+ /usr/portage/packages
- /usr/portage

It's important to use "-" not "!" as the latter will not recurse the
excluded folder, while "-" will.

-- 
-:-:- David K. Gasaway
-:-:- Email: dave at gasaway.org
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