Re: Thought on the missing directories

[On 01 Feb, @ 22:09, Boris wrote in "[hdup-user] Thought on the mis ..."]
> I just had a thought that perhaps if what you build in the first pass
> and then fed to tar was an _exclude_ list, you might avoid the problems
> while maintaining the file-by-file control.  The exclude list could be
> much more compact than the include list too, for common situations where
> you're backing up pretty much everything.

You might be on to something!

Just negating the include/exclude and writing an exclude file
could do the trick. However one should be carefull as tar might
recognize glob patterns in the exclude file.

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  - Miek

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