Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Kirk McKusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You would think I would remember code that I wrote (though in my defense it was written over 20 years ago :-) hey, I can't even remember code that I wrote 20 days ago, much less 20 years, so I won't be the one to cast the first stone :) it's not that b

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Kirk McKusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You would think I would remember code that I wrote (though in my > defense it was written over 20 years ago :-) hey, I can't even remember code that I wrote 20 days ago, much less 20 years, so I won't be the one to cast the first stone :) DES -- Dag-Er

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-30 Thread Kirk McKusick
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:13:54 -0600 > From: Barry Pederson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Kirk McKusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL > PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The dump program runs on the raw disk partition dumping sequentially by inode number. So, it has no idea of the file-tree hierarchy. Thus any propagation of the "nodump" flag would have to be done by the Yes, dump DO descend to check for nodump flags - while doing backup for raw filesystem. the

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-30 Thread Barry Pederson
Kirk McKusick wrote: The dump program runs on the raw disk partition dumping sequentially by inode number. So, it has no idea of the file-tree hierarchy. I was just looking at the source to dump, specifically traverse.c and from what I can see, doesn't dump pass #2 scan through all directori

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-30 Thread Kirk McKusick
> From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mikhail Teterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:54:02 +0100 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Automatic `nodump' flag? > > Mikhail Teterin <[E

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-30 Thread Barry Pederson
Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hello! I'd like the entire contents of each user's .mozilla/firefox/*/Cache directory to be excluded from the regular filesystem dumps. Running ``chflags -R nodump /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache'' does the trick, but this needs to be redone daily -- prior to running

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-30 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mikhail Teterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like the entire contents of each user's .mozilla/firefox/*/Cache > directory to be excluded from the regular filesystem dumps. > > Running ``chflags -R nodump /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache'' does > the trick, but this needs to be redone daily --

Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mikhail Teterin wrote: I'd like the entire contents of each user's .mozilla/firefox/*/Cache directory to be excluded from the regular filesystem dumps. Running ``chflags -R nodump /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache'' does the trick, but this needs to be redone daily -- prior to running the back

Automatic `nodump' flag?

2008-01-30 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I'd like the entire contents of each user's .mozilla/firefox/*/Cache directory to be excluded from the regular filesystem dumps. Running ``chflags -R nodump /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache'' does the trick, but this needs to be redone daily -- prior to running the backup -- because new