On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:38:42 +0200 "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jacob wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:12:55 -0700
> > Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in
> >> return for, would be something like this:
> >>
> >> User touches a file named ".donotbackup" in a directory. Backuppc
> >> notices this and does not backup that directory. The sysadmin
> >> doesn't have to alter the system include list.
> >>
> >> -Robin
> >
> > +1
> >
> > This is good for users who aren't administrators. Cache
> > directories, or other GBs of data that is temporary, etc...
>
> It sounds nice, but I wonder if it's feasible. It has to work with
> all backends (tar, rsync, samba) and I don't think all these backends
> have built-in features to do this (I think none of them do), so
> BackupPC would have to look through the whole filesystem first for
> those files somehow. And do this every backup!
>
> Nils Breunese.
It would probably require a change in the way BackupPC runs those commands.
Maybe it would have to collect the files and send them to rsync or whatever
instead?
I haven't touched BackupPC's code, so I'm blind to the current situation. You
guys are the developers, so if it won't work on your end, it won't work at all.
:)
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