Re: Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

[On 30 Sep, @ 14:53, James wrote in "[hdup-user] Fwd: Hdup feature  ..."]
> (Sorry if you get this twice, I sent to frodo.miek.nl before an it
> appeared to bounce)

hmm, I've changed my mail setup. I will look into it, but .miek.nl
is preferred anyway.

> Hi - I was just thinking it would be really nice to tell hdup to
> ignore a directory or directory heirarchy by placing a file actually
> in that directory, sort of like .htaccess. This would be useful
> because frequently I will put large files in a public location so
> people can download them, but I don't want them backed up.
> 
> Rather than having to specifically configure hdup to exclude that
> directory for one time, it would be nice if I could add a file called
> ".hdup" which might contain a directive like "exclude=yes" or
> "exclude=yes, recurse=yes" to tell it to exclude this directory and
> all subdirectories.
> 
> I suppose for this to work, hdup would need to scan the filesystem
> first and make a list of all directories to exclude.
> 
> What do you think?

This sort of change is scheduled for 1.6.37. The whole include/exclude
mechanism of tar sucks. The only drawback of this is that you need 
2 passes - one for find and then the actual backup of tar. which could
lead to races and such, but the per user/per directory exclude is
really nice to have.

Any ideas for an exclude/include filename? .hdup_ignore??

grtz Miek