file exlude problem

[SPEscoto@cs.com]

Unfortunately I'm travelling and locked myself out of my computer, so I can't 
test things out from where I am.  However, I think the problem is that 
rdiff-backup wants perl-style, not shell-style, regular expressions.  The 
"*access" expression gave you the error "nothing to repeat" because the * 
means to repeat the preceding character 0 or more times, but in your 
expression there was no preceding character.  So, try ".*access.log" (but 
keep in mind that . matches any char, so ".*access.log" will match 
"fooaccessalog"...).

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Ben Escoto