Re: Thought on the missing directories

[On 01 Feb, @ 22:18, Hdup wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Thought on the ..."]
> [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!

but the thing is, gnu tar already has the --no-recursion which solves
a lot of the issues. But that option is incompatible with --listed-incremental,
so rather useless for hdup :(

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