i'm resending this question, since i don't believe i saw a
response. is anyone else successfully using BackupFilesExclude
with the tar method?
(i'd simply add the --exclude args to the tarcmd itself, except
i see from the docs that there's trickery involved in escaping
wildcard characters.)
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i'd like to be able to flag any file or directory that i want
backuppc to skip by adding a ._nobackup_ suffix to its name.
will this do the trick? (backup method is tar)
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/proc'. '*._nobackup_' };
You need a comma instead of a period.
Paul Fox writes:
hi -- i recently realized that there are some pretty big files on
my system that change frequently, and which don't need to be
backed up -- mail index files, for example.
i'd like to be able to flag any file or directory that i want
backuppc to skip by adding a ._nobackup_
i'd like to be able to flag any file or directory that i want
backuppc to skip by adding a ._nobackup_ suffix to its name.
will this do the trick? (backup method is tar)
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '/proc'. '*._nobackup_' };
You need a comma instead of a period.
hi -- i recently realized that there are some pretty big files on
my system that change frequently, and which don't need to be
backed up -- mail index files, for example.
i'd like to be able to flag any file or directory that i want
backuppc to skip by adding a ._nobackup_ suffix to its name.
