cpbackup-exclude settings - what could be wrong ?

[legija]

Hi,

Since i do need to exclude some dirs from backups, due to limited backup space and a very large amount of data, I've found out about this new feature.

So, I've edited conf file which is already present in all user dirs and added a line like this :

/home/user/excludedir

That should be it, right ?

But - now i see my server is choking up trying to gzip 320GB of data from that dir i just excluded from backup.

So, any idea what i did wrong ?