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I'm using Borg to create backups of my home directory. I'm having trouble with excluding specific sub-directories when using a PATTERNSFILE with --patterns-from. I have the following (simplified) ...
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2025-03-24T20:02:52Z (about 1 month ago)
Issues with excluding specific sub-directories with Borg patterns
I'm using Borg to create backups of my home directory. I'm having trouble with excluding specific sub-directories when using a `PATTERNSFILE` with `--patterns-from`.
I have the following (simplified) patterns file:
```
R /home/user
+ /home/user/.config/chezmoi
- /home/user/.config
- /home/user/**/.idea
```
My goal is to exclude all `.idea` sub-directories, regardless of their location, hence the catch-all `/home/user/**/.idea`. Still, there is a `.idea` sub-directory being included in the backup because it's inside `/home/user/.config/chezmoi`.
I did try adding a specific exclusion for `/home/user/config/chezmoi/.idea`, but it doesn't seem to work either.
How can I exclude the `.idea` directory within `/home/user/.config/chezmoi` while still including other specified directories? I know the order is important, and that's what took me a while to put together my `PATTERNSFILE`, but what I have seems correct.
I'm running Borg `1.4.0` under Arch Linux. The command I'm using to test the backup is `borg create --dry-run --info --list --patterns-from="${HOME}/.borgignore" /path/to/repository::{hostname}-{now}`.