In Ubuntu (disco), how do I tell deja-dup to ignore a folder pattern? I want for example to make it skip any folder, in any path, that is named node_modules. When I try to add folders to the ignore list, it won't allow me to type something (like **/node_modules), only pick a folder from the file system.
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Unfortunately, Déjà Dup doesn't support that. The problem has been discussed for more than a decade ¹ ², yet it is stuck at zero progress because devs seem to expect a perfect UI design proposed to solve all use cases—even for beginner users which probably don't have this problem—from the get go, instead of just providing a simple glob pattern input method which will solve it for most users.
The best workaround in my opinion, although admittedly hacky, is a solution by Ian Puleston delegating to a shell script the expansion of glob patterns at backup run time.
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