Exclusion pattern question

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Hi all, I am trying to exclude the majority of files in a folder because most of it is log files, but it does contain a config folder that that I want to keep. I created an exclude file and from the documentation, if I read it correctly I thought the code below would exclude all of the .nx folder except .nx/config

/home/**/.nx
!/home/**/.nx/config

however when I look at the snapshot there is no .nx folder. At this point I’m assuming I’m doing something wrong.
Thanks in advance for any help

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With your exclude configuration restic never enters the .nx folder and thus the second line never applies. You could try the following:

/home/**/.nx/*
!/home/**/.nx/config
3

Ok after looking closer at the documentation I was wondering if that might be the case. I’ll edit it and see what happens with tonight’s backup

4

Thank you that was it, now it’s working as expected!