Is there a way to have a per-directory .exclude file or similar which
tarsnap consults while traversing the file tree? I run tarsnap daily
as root to back up my machine (including /home) and it would be nice
if there was a way for a user account to create listings of
files/folders to be excluded
On 03/07/14 03:39, David Williams wrote:
> Is there a way to have a per-directory .exclude file or similar which
> tarsnap consults while traversing the file tree? I run tarsnap daily
> as root to back up my machine (including /home) and it would be nice
> if there was a way for a use
Thanks for the quick response and for the nodump tip. I'll look into that.
Best,
Dave
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 03/07/14 03:39, David Williams wrote:
>> Is there a way to have a per-directory .exclude file or similar which
>> tarsnap consu
One could capture the .exclude files prior to the execution of tarsnap and
generate a -X exclude.file
On 7 March 2014 11:39:19 WET, David Williams wrote:
>Is there a way to have a per-directory .exclude file or similar which
>tarsnap consults while traversing the file tree? I run t
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 08:13:47PM +, Luís Avelino Relógio wrote:
> One could capture the .exclude files prior to the execution of tarsnap and
> generate a -X exclude.file
find / -name .exclude -execdir xargs -a {} readlink -m \; > exclude.file
Best,
--
Gabriel
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 06:04:01AM -0700, jerry wrote:
> Getting back to loving Unix: I wrote a quickie wrapper for tarsnap in
> Perl. It goes and gets the excludes file from the top directory of
> the tree being backed up, and creates a tarsnap command line.
This has already been discussed a f
On 06/29/14 08:03, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
> On a related note: shall we start making a FAQ for this list?
Please do! I'm horrible at writing that sort of documentation because I
have too much of a mental model of how Tarsnap works -- I have trouble
putting myself into the place of someone experie
Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
> posted the following one-liner to generate a single exclude-file
> collecting the content of .exclude in sub-directories:
>
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:11:59AM +, Gabriel Kerneis wrote:
> > find / -name .exclude -execdir xargs -a {} readlink -m \; > exclude.file
Bew
