vzdump exclude file types?

[postcd]

Hello,

vzdump manual shows one can use regex to exclude directories/files.

EXCLUSIONS (OpenVZ only)
vzdump skips the following files wit option --stdexcludes

/var/log/.+
/tmp/.+
/var/tmp/.+
/var/run/.+pid

You can manually specify exclude paths, for example:

# vzdump 777 --exclude-path C</tmp/.+> --exclude-path C</var/tmp/.+>

(only excludes tmp directories)

Configuration files are also stored inside the backup archive (/etc/vzdump), and will be correctly restored.

But how the command should look like when i want to exclude lets say .tar.gz and .zip files in all directories of VMs?
(I want to do frequent backups without these files and less often backups including everything)

 

[dietmar]

But how the command should look like when i want to exclude lets say .tar.gz and .zip files in all directories of VMs?

--exclude-path '.+\.tar\.gz' --exclude-path '.+\.zip'

 

[postcd]

--exclude-path '.+\.tar\.gz' --exclude-path '.+\.zip'

Thanks alot, this is very handy.

 

[postcd]

Is it not speed decrease problem when i add like 20 exclude switches to the vzdump ? thx

 

[dietmar]

no, should not affect speed.