Package: flexbackup
Version: 1.2.1-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I would like to be able to exclude certain directories from flexbackup's
backup process, without having to edit the configuration file. In
particular, I want my users to be able to specify directories that
should not be backed up (such as project build directories and the like)
without administrative intervention.
I have implemented one means of doing this, by way of including a
.nobackup file in the directory to exclude. A patch is pasted in below.
Note that it does not work on remote filesystems because I do not use
them. Note also that it takes an additional short period of time to
execute because it uses a separate find(1) call to locate files named
.nobackup.
I hope that this is useful.
*** /usr/bin/flexbackup 2006-09-23 17:09:52.000000000 -0400
--- /usr/local/bin/flexbackup 2007-05-23 21:43:11.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 4863,4868 ****
--- 4863,4876 ----
$prunekey = $dir;
}
+ my @nobackup = ();
+ if (!defined($remote)) { # TODO: allow this on remote filesystems
+ @nobackup = split(/\n/, `cd $dir && $cmd -name .nobackup | sed
-e 's/^\\.\\/\\(.*\\)\\/\\.nobackup\$/\\1/'`);
+ for my $nobackup (@nobackup) {
+ $::prune{$prunekey}{$nobackup} = 1;
+ }
+ }
+
if (defined(%{$::prune{$prunekey}})) {
# FreeBSD needs -E (above) and no backslashes around the (|)
# chars
if ($::uname =~ /FreeBSD/) {
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages flexbackup depends on:
ii cpio 2.6-17 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages flexbackup recommends:
ii afio 2.5-4 archive file manipulation program
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
pn buffer <none> (no description available)
ii rsync 2.6.9-2 fast remote file copy program (lik
ii sharutils 1:4.2.1-15 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode
ii zip 2.32-1 Archiver for .zip files
-- no debconf information
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