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From: | rdiff |
Subject: | Re: [rdiff-backup-users] PATCH: Exclude if present |
Date: | Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:58:45 -0800 (PST) |
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Jeff Strunk wrote:
I just checked to make sure, but your example only excludes files named .NOBACKUP . --exclude-if-present excludes the entire directory.
Ahh, so you place a .NOBACKUP file in directories which should not be backed up? I misunderstood your intent. I thought it simply did not backup directories named .NOBACKUP so you might put your un-important files in /mnt/data/.NOBACKUP/foo/bar/whatever.
I think I like the ability of both options; it makes it easy for users to exclude directories without breaking their director hierarchy. Do I understand correctly what is happening here?
-Eric
Example: $ ls -a test1 . .. file1 test2 test4 $ ls -a test1/test2 . .. file1 .NOBACKUP test3 $ /tmp/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP /tmp/test1 /tmp/backup_test $ ls -a backup_test . .. file1 rdiff-backup-data test2 test4 $ ls -a backup_test/test2/ . .. file1 test3 $ /tmp/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude-if-present .NOBACKUP /tmp/test1 /tmp/backup_test2 $ ls -a backup_test2 . .. file1 rdiff-backup-data test4 -Jeff On Friday 16 March 2007 6:20 pm, address@hidden wrote:How similar to this is rdiff-backup --exclude /**/.NOBACKUP ? -Eric On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, dean gaudet wrote:excellent, i've wanted this feature... i'll apply it next time i'm running through patches. any chance you could do a 1.1.x port as well? thanks -dean On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Jeff Strunk wrote:I have a small contribution to make in the form of a simple selection function. My company has found that we needed a way for users to say that particular directories shouldn't get backed up. The attached patch adds the --exclude-if-present option. It has been tested with 1.0.4 and 1.0.5. I documented it on the wiki at http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/ExcludeIfPresent . Thanks, Jeff Strunk IT Administrator Enthought, Inc._______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at address@hidden http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
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