Re: Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

Thanks for the pointer. Indeed, a quick peruse of the man pages for star 
would indicate what you propose just might be a solution to the 
"exclude" problem.

An issue I see is the fact that some of the options to gnu-tar are hard 
coded in the hdup program. So unless star is command line compatible 
with the hard coded options in hdup, then we'll have to make hdup code 
changes. If star is command line compatible with gnu-tar, then we 
shouldn't have a problem!

I'll play around with it and reply back to the list with my results. 
Thanks for the idea!

Graham King wrote:

> ... however, the functionality you're discussing looks very like the
> -FFF option to star(1) (available in FC2 and elsewhere).
> 
> I haven't tested this, but it would be interesting to use hdup's "tar"
> option to point it at star.  We might then be able to use hdup's new
> "tar option" keyword to select star's "-acl" and "-xattr" options for
> archiving ACL's and extended attributes (such as those used by SELinux).
> 
> If someone has some time on their hands ;-) it would be interesting to
> hear whether this idea has any value.
> 
> -- Graham
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 15:52, Robert Haskins wrote:
> 
>>Indeed you are correct, Miek. After further testing, I cannot replicate 
>>the previous results by using ".nobackup" scheme I outlined. So, I must 
>>have not performed my previous testing correctly.
>>
>>Sorry about the misleading posts, everyone. This functionality would 
>>surely be nice, though!
>>
>>Miek Gieben wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I didn't know this.. so the new tar actually look at a .nobackup
>>>file?
>>>
>>>Do you have any documentation on this behavior?
>>>
>>>grtz Miek
>>>
>>
>