Gee, can we be sure of anything with gnutar ;)
I have that small project in my mind that would do a tar cv and a tar
cv --exclude-from and compare both output.
I will do that when I have a day free :)
Olivier
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I want to know what the exclude list should look like to make sure I exclude
all files with these extensions in any directory/subdirectory contained
under the disklist entries:
.ora
.dbf
.dmp
.dmp.gz.xx
It seems that the safest way is:
*.ora
*.dbf
*.dmp
*.dmp.gz.*
without the initial
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 04:41:37PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
I want to know what the exclude list should look like to make sure I exclude
all files with these extensions in any directory/subdirectory contained
under the disklist entries:
.ora
.dbf
.dmp
.dmp.gz.xx
It seems
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:54:07AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
No there really is a difference between excluding /foo, ./foo, and foo.
As you are backing up ., /foo will not match anything.
Of course
./foo will match any foo in the top level directory .
foo will match any foo in any
to confirm whether or not I could have used the entries
without ./ and what the difference between the different sets of entries
would be.
Thanks very much.
Joe
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When AMANDA attempts to exclude a file or directory it does so relative to
the area being archived. For example if /var is in your disklist and you
want to exclude /var/log/somefile, then your exclude file would contain
./log/somefile
I understand that rather as a warning not to use /var in
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:47:22AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
When AMANDA attempts to exclude a file or directory it does so relative to
the area being archived. For example if /var is in your disklist and you
want to exclude /var/log/somefile, then your exclude file would contain
