Re: Backing up selective sub directories...and dir and include

What about a new hdup.conf configuration keyword that allowed you to 
specify additional arguments to tar? I realize its kind of a hack, but 
it seems simple and other people could use the functionality to 
configure tar in other ways. hdup gives the user the ability to add 
arguments/options to the file transfer protocol (ssh), so why not tar?

Would you accept patches for this functionality?

Thanks for your time, and writing such a great utility!

Miek Gieben wrote:

>>One way we thought of doing this was by using symlinks from a directory 
>>we are backing up (/var/bak) to each user's backup directory 
>>(/home/rhaskins/bak). Then, tell tar to backup the actual files pointed 
>>to by the symlinks, rather than symlinks (which is the tar default). 
>>However, there doesn't seem to be any way to pass tar options from hdup.
> 
> 
> You could hack setup_tarcmd() in hduptarlib.c line 553 and add your
> option there. But IHMO this really sounds very ugly....