On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Dump, since it works at the level of the inode structure of the > filesystem, can hand handle full filesystems only. It has no concept > of a subdir as its just another inode to dump. This is also why dump > is specific to the filesystem, meaning you can't use dump ofr ext2 > against a reiserfs or dos partition type. > > If they fit, this is nice & possibly faster. But if they don't fit, tar > is a much better way to do it. > That's fine. Thanks for the explanation.
> One thing that seems to bite new users is the exclude files formating > when using tar. > > Since tar traverses the directory structure, a file to be excluded must > be specified in ./name format, which will exclude 'name' and if 'name' > is a subdir, all files up that branch will be excluded too. > > This is true regardless of whether you are just nameing a single file to > exclude, or in a file specified as full path to file which may contain > a list of names, in which case those names in that file need to be in > that same ./name format. In my /home definition I have the line "/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/.exclude" and the file '.exclude' has absolute paths to the subdirectories that contain photos and video, e.g. /home/anne/recordings. It seems to work. If it didn't I wouldn't be able to run that at all, as it would be far too big. I guess that since that DLE is actually starting from /home I could have shortened the path but only by one level. Right? Anne
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