stellar808 Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 It would seem to me that if I selcted a folder for back up, and then used the "Selecting" options to have Retrospect Desktop to Excludefolders and then I provide the name of folder, it should skip over those within that Folder. This doesn't seem to work, the User Guide doesn't seem to cover this in much detail. Is there some other procedure I should be following? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Hi So you want to include one folder and then exclude some subfolders within it? I can't remember this exactly but I believe you have to create an include condition that is include folders whose parent folder is x and foldername is not y Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellar808 Posted January 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 May I ask you to consider the conditon I have created? I want to back up my OS X Library folder, but not some of the folders with in it. I have created a filter to this effect. Include "Folder" name matches exactly "Library". in the "exclude" conditions Exclude "Folder" name matches "Mozilla" and other other conditons. The other conditions are some other folders. Previously, this led Retrospect to back up everything in the Library folder and it excluded nothing. As I note the activity of this script from yesterday, nothing was was backed up and the back up file was empty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Hi Assuming you have defined your users folder as a subvolume create a selector like this using the "Name" criteria: Enclosing folder does exactly match "Library" AND Enclosing folder noes NOT exactly match "folder you want to exclude" You will have to create a separate "AND" condition for each folder you want to exclude. Hope that helps Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellar808 Posted January 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 This is what I needed to know. Many Thanks...I hope it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellar808 Posted January 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 This worked, but I had to create a whole new script. The conditions were to: Include Enclosing Folder whose name Matches Exactly "Folder Name" but always Exclude Enclosing Folder whose name matches exactly "Folder Name" boolean stuff...always a bugger to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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