With BSD dump on 4.4BSD-derived systems, one can set the nodump flag
(see chflags(1)). Then, one can compile amanda with
--with-dump-honor-nodump, and the nodump flag will be honored even for
level 0 - normally it is honored only for 1 and up (see dump(8)).
(FreeBSD man pages can be read at http://www.freebsd.org/)
For example:
$ ls -lo sendbackup.debug sendsize.debug
-rw------- 1 amanda operator - 717 Jan 2 01:46 sendbackup.debug
-rw------- 1 amanda operator - 6544 Jan 2 01:13 sendsize.debug
$ chflags nodump sendsize.debug
$ ls -lo sendbackup.debug sendsize.debug
-rw------- 1 amanda operator - 717 Jan 2 01:46 sendbackup.debug
-rw------- 1 amanda operator nodump 6544 Jan 2 01:13 sendsize.debug
I use this feature regularly on FreeBSD and NetBSD to avoid backing up
build trees, stuff I've checked out from anoncvs, etc.
Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
