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Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Posts by ɯıpɐʌ‭

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Q&A 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) ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8d ago by ɯıpɐʌ‭  ·  last activity 7d ago by ɯıpɐʌ‭

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Q&A Issues with excluding specific sub-directories with Borg patterns

Again, the order of the patterns matters 🫤 I was able to exclude any .idea sub-directory —at all levels— by declaring the line - /home/user/**/.idea at the beginning of the file. R /home/user ...

posted 7d ago by ɯıpɐʌ‭

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