Re: Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

Sorry, this wasn't clear. You just put ".nobackup" in the top level 
directory you don't want backed up. Each subdirectoy doesn't need the 
".nobackup" file. Rather, all subdirectories will automatically *not* be 
backed up by tar.

Robert Haskins wrote:

> I believe hdup already does this. Just put an empty file (I use 
> ".nobackup") in each directory (including all subdirectories) you don't 
> want backed up. Then, add the name of the file you use to specify "no 
> backup" of the directory to the hdup.conf line like this:
> 
> exclude = .nobackup, lost+found, /proc, /dev, /sys
> 
> That should do what you want it to do, if I understand what you are asking.
> 
> I see Miek's email saying that tar has issues with doing this. However, 
> it seems to work for me under FC1 and FC2 (with the stock FC tar) 
> without a problem. I have tested this (though not exhaustively) and "it 
> works for me".
> 
> James Treworgy wrote:
> 
>> (Sorry if you get this twice, I sent to frodo.miek.nl before an it
>> appeared to bounce)
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> James Treworgy
>>
>>
>>
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