Exclude backing up specific filetype globally with cpbackup-exclude.conf

Sorry to bump an old thread, but this comes up on top in Google and I really don't see it addressed elsewhere. The examples in the documentation for cpbackup-exclude.conf all appear to do with directories. If I want to exclude all of a specific filetype globally on an account, will this syntax work?

Code:

*.mp3
*.tar.gz
*.zip

Thank you.

-Michael

 

I read the documentation, as indicated in my post. I wasn't totally clear on it though. Why, for instance, do the file specific exclusions start with "*/"?

Code:

*/.wysiwygPro_*
*/core.[0-9]

In the example I posted I did not specify that, does that make a difference?

-Michael

 

The issue is that the account is over 100GB, the backup process is dying before completing, and we're winding up with a 0 byte backup. Those files are taking up ~70Gb of the space, so I was hoping that excluding them would allow the backup to complete, but either the pattern isn't working, or it's still not enough trimmed off.

I will create a smaller test cpanel with those exclusions and see if it works on there. Thanks.

-Michael