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firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

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Fsarchiver --exclude not excluding directories from NTFS filesystem

Hey, I'm trying to use --exclude to exclude several directories from a large (280GB) NTFS filesystem (Windows Vista) and they are getting included anyways. I've tried several different variations, but nothing seems to make a difference. Testing --exclude on an ext filesystem (very small) seems to work fine, as does running fsarchiver without any excludes on an NTFS filesystem. This is the command I used:

fsarchiver -v -L mediacenter backup/mediacenter_backup.fsa /dev/sda1 --exclude='username/Documents' --exclude='username/Pictures' --exclude='username/Music' --exclude='username/Music - Originals'

I tried leaving off the 'username/' (the absolute path is \Users\username\{Documents, Music, etc.} ), adding a '*' after the directory name, adding '\' in front of the spaces in 'Music\ -\ Originals', and changing it to the complete absolute path for each directory. Using the 0.6.12 version. I also asked in the fsarchiver forum, but it doesn't look like people have been getting very timely replies lately. Anyone have experience with this?

Thanks!
Scott

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