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Edit List of Files to Exclude

There are always some files you do not want to include in a backup. Examples might be: proc, dev, home/fred/secrets

Give their names relative to the parent directory and list them one per line. See the default entries for more examples. Lines beginning with a ``#'' are ignored and can be included as comments. This list gets interpreted always, no matter whether you use pattern matching or not.




An example:
You have set your parent directory to ``/home'', and the exclude list contains the entries:
fred/secrets
guest
This will backup all files of the ``/home''-tree, except for the trees ``/home/guests'' and ````/home/fred/secrets''.



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Jens Ritter
1998-08-18