John Rouillard wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Our current backup system (hdup) allows the user to prune directories
> from the backups. So I can backup the /home share and have a user
> create
>
> /home/user/data/lots_of_junk_data_that_doesnt_need_backup/.nobackup.
>
> that file will prevent the backup of
>
> /home/user/data/lots_of_junk_data_that_doesnt_need_backup
>
>
>
Have you tried the -F option in rsync? Seems to work for me. I added
-F to the rsync remote options and then dropped a .rsync-filter file in
the directory. The contents of .rsync-filter is just one line,
- *
It is a little more work than just 'touch .nobackup'. On the other
hand, maybe a cronjob could be made with an appropriate find that
sprinkles these wherever the .nobackup files exists. It could be
followed by another find for .rsync-filter files and removes them if a
.nobackup files doesn't exist as well (maybe that's not such a good idea
if others are using rsync filters on the box independently of you...).
Anyway, I'd suggest doing this in File::Find in perl.
Rich
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