exclude

--exclude=<files, folders and masks>

Files and folders to be excluded from the recovery. You can either specify files and folders explicitly or use certain criteria that are called file masks.

You can use one or more wildcard characters * and ? in a file mask:

The asterisk (*) substitutes for zero or more characters in a file name; for example, file mask "Doc*.txt" yields files such as "Doc.txt" and "Document.txt".
The question mark (?) substitutes for exactly one character in a file name; for example, file mask "Doc?.txt " yields files such as "Doc1.txt" and "Docs.txt" — but not the files "Doc.txt" or "Doc11.txt".

To exclude a folder specified by a path containing the drive letter, add a backslash (\) to the folder name in the criterion; for example: "C:\Finance\".

Exclusion examples


Criterion	Example	Description
Windows and Linux
By name	F.log F	Excludes all files named "F.log" Excludes all folders named "F"
By mask (*)	.log F	Excludes all files with the .log extension Excludes all files and folders with names starting with "F" (such as folders "F", "F1" and files "F.log", "F1.log")
By mask (?)	F???.log	Excludes all .log files with names consisting of four symbols and starting with "F"
Windows
By file path	C:\Finance\F.log	Excludes the file named "F.log" located in the folder C:\Finance
By folder path	C:\Finance\F\	Excludes the folder C:\Finance\F (be sure to specify the full path starting from the disk letter)
Linux
By file path	/home/user/Finance/F.log	Excludes the file named "F.log" located in the directory /home/user/Finance
By folder path	/home/user/Finance/	Excludes the directory /home/user/Finance

The above settings are not effective for the files or folders that were explicitly selected for recovery. For example, assume that you selected the folder my_folder and the file my_file.tmp outside that folder, and selected to skip all .tmp files. In this case, all .tmp files in the folder my_folder will be skipped during the backup process, but the file my_file.tmp will not be skipped.