Package: dirvish Version: 1.2.1-1.1 Severity: wishlist Hi!
I'd like to excempt certain mountpoints from the effect of xdev: 1. In my case, that would be /boot, but others might like to do the same with /usr or /home. This would allow me to backup the whole computer to the same image. The current alternative is to set xdev: 0 and exclude all possible mountpoints selectively. This is clumsy and error-prone. For example, you might start out with an exclude list like /dev/** /proc/** /sys/** /media/*/** /mnt/** /tmp/** Half a year later you start experimenting with AFS. Of course you forget to add /afs to your exclude list, so you end up backing up quiet a bunch of universities as well as CERN. Other candidates for such surprises are CODA and autofs. A list of mountpoints to exclude from xdev: 1 can prevent such surprises. Of course, here you might move /usr or /home to it's own partition and forget to put it on the include list, but at least you can choose your poison yourself :) This could be implemented by starting a new rsync for each mountpoint in the list. Maybe it's even possible to do it in one rsync command, but the rsync man page doesn't seem to explain what exactly happens with multiple source args. Thanks, Jö. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dirvish depends on: ii libtime-modules-perl 2006.0814-2 Various Perl modules for time/date ii libtime-period-perl 1.20-8 Perl library for testing if a time ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.10.0-19 Core Perl modules ii rsync 3.0.3-2 fast remote file copy program (lik Versions of packages dirvish recommends: ii ssh 1:5.1p1-5 secure shell client and server (me dirvish suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- P.S: P.S. in Emails ist ziemlich überflüssing.
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