-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jerry,
I'm also fairly new to tarsnap and asked a similar question here a couple of weeks ago. See message ID <[email protected]> You can add exclude paths to tarsnap.conf. The important thing is to use the whole path, anchoring it to the root of the file system, eg. exclude /home/user/Documents exclude /home/user/something_else Jamie Landeg-Jones also suggested, in that thread, using the --nodump option, but I haven't had a chance to try that yet. Jamie uses it on his BSD system, I'm using Linux. Both *nixes, so it should work. Jamie's other good suggestion is to use the --dry-run option while you're experimenting with different paths and settings. Bob On 27/06/14 16:53, jerry wrote: > Hello, > > As a first try of tarsnap, I tried archiving my /root directory, > which I knew was pretty small. Or was it? Not only did it take a > long time, but the resulting archive was *BIG*. As in two > gigabytes - ish. I did a du -b and discovered a large directory > called .cpan. OK, it's the perl library build stuff. Every time > I install a new Perl library, all the build stuff winds up in this > .cpan directory. I don't know if Perl will work right anymore if I > delete this stuff, but I'm pretty sure I have no interest in > backing it up, because I can always get it off CPAN again. > > That leads me to the general subject of excludes. I see that one > can specify them in the tarsnap command line. There's also some > verbiage about putting them in config files. But no examples of > that ( that I could find ). Can a config file have multiple > -exclude lines? > > In general, I like to have excludes in a separate file. Usually > named "excludes", at the top of each tree I am backing up. > > - Jerry Kaidor ( [email protected] ) - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.11.10-17-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.13.2 Uptime: 06:00am up 12:16, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.19, 0.13 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlOtpSQACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU6uNACgku01r58R7o2TjEnFRestHQEC lSEAoKiaXt9OhKDwcYwLpqNahNJowdWi =CBbO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
