Dupliciti Regex Help

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I am trying to filter using regex to only get specific directories and subdirectories. I am running Dupliciti on Ubuntu.

Folder Structure

/folder/company1/200127-2012/ (exclude)
/folder/company1/200127-2013/ (exclude)
/folder/company1/current/(include all subdirectories and files in this folder)
/folder/company2/200127-2012/ (exclude)
/folder/company2/200127-2013/ (exclude)
/folder/company2/current/(include all subdirectories and files in this folder)
/folder/company2/200127-2012/ (exclude)
/folder/company2/200127-2013/ (exclude)
/folder/company2/current/(include all subdirectories and files in this folder)

The folder ‘current’ is a symlink that changes automatically to the current set of files. I already have this functioning.

Can anyone give me an example regex that I can implement that will only include the symlink directory and all directories beneath it?

Any help is greatly appreciated,

Thanks.

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OK, so my regex seems to work. Seems to be an issue with Duplicati. GUI. I am running headless Ubuntu with the Dupliciti Web Interface.

Here is my regex /folder/[^/]+/current/.*

When I test with duplicati-cli test-filter I see the results I expect.

When I add the filter to the web interface as text +[/folder/[^/]+/current/.*] and run a backup It says counting but the progress never seems to go anywhere.

Any suggestions?

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Did you escape your slashes? This seemed to work for me:

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Also note that you’ll need to set --symlink-policy=Follow (step 5, advanced options) in a situation like this.

Good luck!

4

Obviously I am a newbie at REGEX and made it way more complicated than it needed to be. I have made the changes and am running a backup. I’m at about 3TB of storage with a ton of small files so it is going to take a long time but so far seems to be working correctly. When it is finished I will verify what got backed up. Thank you for the help thus far.

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Great! Glad to hear it is working.