Re: Support for CACHEDIR.TAG excludes?

2013-06-17 Thread Christoph Biedl
francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote... You can achieve that already with the -F option of rsync. Create a .rsync-filter file in the directories you want with the following content: + .rsync-filter - * Close enough for my needs. Initially I had some trouble getting this to work, especially

Re: Support for CACHEDIR.TAG excludes?

2013-05-31 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Thu, 30 May 2013 22:17:24 +0200 Christoph Biedl wrote: there's an old proposal to exclude a directory and its subdirectories from being backed up and the like, ... You can achieve that already with the -F option of rsync. Create a .rsync-filter file in the directories you want with the

Support for CACHEDIR.TAG excludes?

2013-05-30 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hi there, there's an old proposal to exclude a directory and its subdirectories from being backed up and the like, by placing a file name CACHEDIR.TAG into it with a certain content, see [*] for details. rsync lacks support for that and I was wondering why. Unless there are strong reasons