Exclude folders based on their names
 

Is it possible (using wildcards) to exclude specific folders from a backup? For instance, all folders with a name that starts with "• " or something like that.
I know I can exclude files using this technique, but is seems as if this does not work for folders.

Thanks in advance!

It should certainly work just the same for folders, SanderP.

I'm sorry, I didn't explain myself properly.

It does of course work for specific folders. I can easily exclude a folder by adding something like "ignore Projects/Test/• images".

What I would like to do is exclude any folder that has a name that starts with "• ", no matter where it exists on a volume. Something like "ignore Projects/• *" or "ignore Projects/*/• *". That doesn't seem to be possible.

Thanks!

Correct: you can't specify "any folder, anywhere". The commands are specific to locations (but can be multi-level -- e.g. Projects/*/• * should work in all folders inside Projects, and all •-starting folders under there.).

That's strange, because that is exactly what I'm doing -- to no avail.

Does it matter if Project is a volume, and not a regular folder? I have tried both "ignore Projects/*/• *" and "ignore Volumes/Projects/*/• *".

If there is no way to get this to work, it may be a nice feature for the next version of SuperDuper!

Thanks for your help, Dave.

Yes, that matters. Your commands are rooted at the top of the selected volume, so if you use "Projects" at the start, it'll be /Volumes/Projects/Projects/*..., which isn't right. You want to use */• * in your case.

Ah, now I get it! That works like a charm.

Thanks a lot for your help.