Way to have Backblaze exclude .svn folders

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As a developer, I have almost all of my project in Subversion and check them out using TortoiseSVN/Subversion which create a folder named .svn inside every checked out folder.

I'm wondering if there is a way to tell Backblaze to skip backing up all .svn folders?

Best Answer

The current GUI only allows the exclusion of individual folders, not all folders called e.g. .svn

But there is an advanced way of adding exclusions - see

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/220973007-Advanced-Topic-Setting-Custom-Exclusions-via-XML

As an example, I added the following rule to exclude .git hidden folders, only if they were in my ~/Sites folder (another similar could apply to .svn, node_modules etc.):

<excludefname_rule plat="mac" osVers="*"  ruleIsOptional="t" skipFirstCharThenStartsWith="users/" contains_1="/sites/" contains_2="/.git/" doesNotContain="*" endsWith="*" hasFileExtension="*" />
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