Hrmmm ... could you set this on a directory and have it ignore all
files/directories under that directory too? And, the
--with-dump-onor-nodump option .. is that enabled on client or server, or
both?
Thanks ...
On 2 Jan 2001, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 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]>
>
>
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