Servers & Workstations • Re: Exclude folders from backup

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Our situation is Linux managed Agent and we have this folder structure for example with two projects (but we have many more project-folders):
/sharedev/projects/projectA/v10/data/install
/sharedev/projects/projectA/v10/data/test
/sharedev/projects/projectA/v10/data/prod
/sharedev/projects/projectA/v11/data/install
/sharedev/projects/projectA/v11/data/test
/sharedev/projects/projectA/v11/data/prod
/sharedev/projects/projectA/v12/data/install
/sharedev/projects/projectA/v12/data/test
/sharedev/projects/projectA/v12/data/prod

/sharedev/projects/projectB/v10/data/install
/sharedev/projects/projectB/v10/data/test
/sharedev/projects/projectB/v10/data/prod
/sharedev/projects/projectB/v11/data/install
/sharedev/projects/projectB/v11/data/test
/sharedev/projects/projectB/v11/data/prod
/sharedev/projects/projectB/v12/data/install
/sharedev/projects/projectB/v12/data/test
/sharedev/projects/projectB/v12/data/prod

We need to exclude from backup all "test"-folders recursively from each project. We have to exclude all the test-folder recursively, in each project-folder and each project can you multiple version-folders (and the customer-software generates new versions each time an update occurs - so it is not predictable for the backupteam) so we need many wildcards like this style:
/sharedev/projects/project*/v*/data/test/*

Information: at the moment it is not possible to change the test-folder with a mount/hardlink/etc.

Hopefully that will work too.

Statistics: Posted by mge — Apr 25, 2026 5:38 am

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