On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 00:10 -0500, Michael Stowe wrote:
> 
> No.
> 
> At best, this might exclude all shares that happen to have some
> variation of “cache” in the name, but I'm not even sure it would do
> that, depending on the xfer method.
> 
> What you're probably looking for is something along these lines:
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
> 
> '*' => [
>   '*cache*'
>   ]
> };
> 
> I note that this will exclude all files containing the word cache as
> well as all files in all directories containing the word cache, which
> seems like a very poor idea, should somebody named “musicache” have a
> user directory or one tries to store their research files on
> cachexias.

Would backuppc be able to use any standard regex? 

Here are is a cache file. Similar files would be great to exclude:

Cache0000020507.dat

In this case there is a folder that contains all these caches which I
could exclude, but I think regex could help in difficult cases.







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