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diff --git a/doc/beam.conf.5in b/doc/beam.conf.5in index 17d116b..0c38cb8 100644 --- a/doc/beam.conf.5in +++ b/doc/beam.conf.5in @@ -193,6 +193,33 @@ The absolute path to the file system being backed up. A whitespace-separated list of directories and/or files in the .B \fIitem\fB_dir directory. +.TP +.B \fIitem\fB_exclude +A whitespace-separated list of file names (or +.BR glob (3) +patterns) to exclude from archivation. This is translated to +a list of +.B \-\-exclude +options to +.BR tar (1). +Make sure to quote globbing patterns as you would have done in shell, +to prevent them from being expanded too early. For example: +.sp +.nf +.in +2 +system_exclude="'var/spool/mail/*'" +.in +.fi +.sp +.TP +.B \fIitem\fB_exclude_from +A list of files to read exclusion patterns from. It is translated +into a list of +.B \-\-exclude\-from +options. +.TP +.B \fIitem\fB_tar_options +A list of additional options to pass to tar. Use this with caution. .PP For example: .sp |