Folder exclusion issue about zpaqfranz HOT 9 CLOSED

Thank for the question
I will answer tomorrow (I am now working on zpaqfranz over socket)

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You can use multiple -not

zpaqfranz a z:\1.zpaq c:\Documents -not C:\Documents\Department1\Fred\Archive -not C:\Documents\Department2\George\Archive

notfiles is a vector, not a string

vector<string> notfiles;  			// list of prefixes to exclude

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Hello,

Thanks, your configuration works fine but what if I have a lot user profiles in my folder C:\Documents?. I would need to specify a lot of exclusions in the command prompt using multiple -not statements.

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Write exaclty what kind of exclusions you want and I will implement

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Hello,

Thanks again for your support.

I guess it would be interesting to implement the -maxdepth option provided by the UNIX\Linux command find :

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ......

zpaqfranz.exe a backup c:\Documents -not C:\Documents\ * \ * \Archive -maxdepth 1

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After studying the situation, I'm not very supportive

The recursive function used (ispath ()) is used in many places in the source, in particular it is used to add (i.e. choose the files to compress)

Changing it would mean exposing yourself to possible very serious side effects (= does not copy all the data you want). A different function would have to be done, specifically for -not, but the source is already becoming a true example of lasagna code (aka spaghetti 2.0)

At the moment I don't think I can satisfy you

Maybe after finishing the zpaqfranz-over-TCP part I'll think about it again

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Can you write here a regex for what you need with

 // allowed metasymbols: 
// ^  -> text must start with pattern (only allowed as first symbol in regular expression) // $  -> text must end   with pattern (only allowed as last  symbol in regular expression) 
// .  -> any literal // x? -> literal x occurs zero or one time 
// x* -> literal x is repeated arbitrarily 
// x+ -> literal x is repeated at least once

In this case it can be doable (with a small-scale regex matcher)

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Hello,

No worries if the limitation of the recursive search would not work.

The regex expression :

zpaqfranz.exe a backup c:\Documents -not C:\Documents\ * \ * \^Archive$

Is the syntax above correct for you? Only the Archive folders in the 3rd recursion level should be excluded.

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If is much harder, because a "full" regex (with groups) requires a LOT of code, just for expression parsing
Limiting the recursion level is hard too, because you can have multiple *, requiring multiple recursion level
-not C:\Documents\*2 \*3 \*1\^Archive$
=> recurse max 2 times the first, 3 the second, 1 the third (...) different -maxdepth for different jolly

Otherwise it would essentially become a hardwired specific feature for your situation

=> do not think to implement anytime soon, I am currently working on this topic (even harder) zpaqfranz-over-ssh

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