Thanks for the quick response and for the nodump tip. I'll look into that.
Best, Dave On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/07/14 03:39, David Williams wrote: >> Is there a way to have a per-directory .exclude file or similar which >> tarsnap consults while traversing the file tree? I run tarsnap daily >> as root to back up my machine (including /home) and it would be nice >> if there was a way for a user account to create listings of >> files/folders to be excluded without having to have root edit the >> system configuration file. > > No. You're not the first person to request this feature, though. > > The best solution is probably to use the --nodump option and tell > your users to set the nodump file flag. > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid >
