[Csync2] Wildcards in exclude list?

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:56:27PM +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have two servers with a large number of websites on. Each site has a
> directory structure similar to:
> 
> /var/www/siteA/documentroot
> /var/www/siteA/cgi-bin
> /var/www/siteA/logs
> /var/www/siteB/documentroot
> /var/www/siteB/cgi-bin
> /var/www/siteB/logs
> ...
> 
> I want to synchronise everything except the 'logs' (and one other
> directory, not shown above), so I've put in csync2.conf:
> 
> exclude /var/www/*/logs
> 
> ...and it seems to work. Can I rely on this syntax to not replicate that
> directory?

the internal funtion used is fnmatch(),
and to my understanding it works exactly the way you intend to use it.

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