On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Jeff Strunk wrote:
I just checked to make sure, but your example only excludes files
named .NOBACKUP . --exclude-if-present excludes the entire directory.
Ahh, so you place a .NOBACKUP file in directories which should not be
backed up? I misunderstood your intent. I thought it simply did not
backup directories named .NOBACKUP so you might put your un-important
files in /mnt/data/.NOBACKUP/foo/bar/whatever.
I think I like the ability of both options; it makes it easy for users to
exclude directories without breaking their director hierarchy. Do I
understand correctly what is happening here?
-Eric
Example:
$ ls -a test1
. .. file1 test2 test4
$ ls -a test1/test2
. .. file1 .NOBACKUP test3
$ /tmp/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP /tmp/test1 /tmp/backup_test
$ ls -a backup_test
. .. file1 rdiff-backup-data test2 test4
$ ls -a backup_test/test2/
. .. file1 test3
$ /tmp/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude-if-present .NOBACKUP /tmp/test1
/tmp/backup_test2
$ ls -a backup_test2
. .. file1 rdiff-backup-data test4
-Jeff
On Friday 16 March 2007 6:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How similar to this is rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP ?
-Eric
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, dean gaudet wrote:
excellent, i've wanted this feature... i'll apply it next time i'm
running through patches. any chance you could do a 1.1.x port as well?
thanks
-dean
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Jeff Strunk wrote:
I have a small contribution to make in the form of a simple selection
function.
My company has found that we needed a way for users to say that
particular directories shouldn't get backed up. The attached patch adds
the --exclude-if-present option. It has been tested with 1.0.4 and
1.0.5.
I documented it on the wiki at
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/ExcludeIfPresent .
Thanks,
Jeff Strunk
IT Administrator
Enthought, Inc.
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