Re: Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

Miek Gieben <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:33:38 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.hdup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[On 30 Sep, @ 15:21, James wrote in "Re[2]: [hdup-user] Fwd: Hdup f ..."]
> I'll try this myself... I am using a slightly hacked version of tar
> 1.13.25. What version are you using with Fedora?

For Debian Testing 
% tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13.93

It doesn't work, the .nobackup file is just in the archive. The tar source remains
also silent if you do: grep -i nobackup * in src/ dir.

[15:31|pts/1|floep /tmp/culchie]
% touch .nobackup 

% cd ..
[15:31|pts/1|floep /tmp]
% tar cvfz ~/backup.tgz .
./
./.ICE-unix/
tar: ./.ICE-unix/2213: socket ignored
./culchie/
./culchie/TODO
./culchie/Makefile
./culchie/README
./culchie/.nobackup
./culchie/culchie.c


% tar tfz backup.tgz
./
./.ICE-unix/
./culchie/
./culchie/TODO
./culchie/Makefile
./culchie/README
./culchie/.nobackup
./culchie/culchie.c
./culchie/culchie.h
./orbit-miekg/
./orbit-miekg/bonobo-activation-server-ior
./orbit-miekg/bonobo-activation-register.lock
./.X0-lock
./.X11-unix/
./gconfd-miekg/
./gconfd-miekg/lock/
./gconfd-miekg/lock/ior
./culchie-0.0.1.tar.gz
./ssh-zevkMz2213/
./keyring-CcLgPW/
[15:31|pts/2|floep ~]