Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-21 Thread Rob Owens
For my backups of /home I always exclude '/*/tmp/' and tell my users that anything they don't want backed up should go in /home/username/tmp Rsync will exclude /home/username/tmp and any files or directories contained in /home/username/tmp -Rob Robin Lee Powell wrote: > A feature I'd really like

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-18 Thread Tomas Florian
Sending the files or directories individually would be a great feature in itself. I have had so many problems with rsync and tar running out of resources because of the cumulative share size being too large. Sending the sub-directories individually would solve that headache ... + having the option

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-18 Thread Jacob
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:38:42 +0200 "Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:12:55 -0700 > > Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in > >> return for, would be some

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-17 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Jacob wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:12:55 -0700 Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in return for, would be something like this: User touches a file named ".donotbackup" in a directory. Backuppc notices this and does not b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-17 Thread Jacob
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:12:55 -0700 Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in > return for, would be something like this: > > User touches a file named ".donotbackup" in a directory. Backuppc > notices this and does not backu

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in return for, would be something like this: User touches a file named ".donotbackup" in a directory. Backuppc notices this and does not backup that directory. The sysadmin doesn't have to alter the system include list. -Robin --