mx-snapshot-tool: mx-snapshot-exclude.list

[Duliwi]

My Home is 264GiB in size. That's why I wanted to make a personal snapshot without several large folders.
So I have edited the file /etc/mx-snapshot-exclude.list

Unfortunately, each time I finished the snapshot (after 1-2h), I found that the iso was 146 GiB in size. This meant that obviously the exclusion did not work.

I made the following entry in the file /etc/mx-snapshot-exclude.list:

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home/*/My folder/* #This is my own addition

After a lot of trial and error, I finally found out what was wrong with my exclusion-syntax.

Solution:
Only when I omitted "#This is my own addition" the exclusion finally did work:

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home/*/My folder/*