Given that you have a list of regular expression patterns already (e.g. used with "bup"), it would be helpful if --exclude-from re:/etc/backup-exclude-bup.txt would work, i.e. consider all patterns in the file to have a re: prefix.
I've used the following Vim commands to convert the list manually:
:%s/^\ze[^#]/re:/gc
" borg does not like a / at the end before $ to exclude dirs?!
:%s~/\$~\$~gc
Given that you have a list of regular expression patterns already (e.g. used with "bup"), it would be helpful if
--exclude-from re:/etc/backup-exclude-bup.txtwould work, i.e. consider all patterns in the file to have are:prefix.I've used the following Vim commands to convert the list manually: