jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > Damn I love Unix. Tarsnap doesn't do exclude files. I REALLY want > exclude files. I like having the excludes enumerated as close as > possible to the actual files. And that --nodump thing leaves me > completely cold. An invisible flag that affects how things work?
Invisible flag? That's why I love FreeBSD! :-) | d[-_-]b dyslexicfish> l / | total 85 | 4 drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel - 512 Jun 10 03:36 . | 4 drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel - 512 Jun 10 03:36 .. | 8 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel nodump 6199 Jan 3 2012 COPYRIGHT | 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel nodump 1024 Jan 3 2012 bin | 4 drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel nodump 1024 Jan 28 2013 boot | 4 dr-xr-xr-x 15 root wheel nodump 512 Dec 15 2013 cdrom | 1 dr-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel - 512 Jun 23 00:45 dev | 4 -rw------- 1 root wheel nodump 4096 Jan 31 23:07 entropy | 4 drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel - 2048 Jun 10 02:31 etc | 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel nodump 1536 Jul 30 2012 lib | 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel nodump 512 Jul 30 2012 libexec | 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel nodump 512 Jan 3 2012 media | 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel nodump 512 Jan 3 2012 mnt | 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel nodump 512 Jan 3 2012 proc | 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel nodump 2560 Jul 30 2012 rescue | 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel nodump 512 Jun 23 00:34 root | 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel nodump 2560 Jul 30 2012 sbin | 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel nodump 11 Jan 3 2012 sys -> usr/src/sys | 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel nodump 512 Feb 2 04:10 temp | 4 drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel nodump 512 Jun 29 19:54 tmp | 4 drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel - 512 Jun 10 05:02 usr | 4 drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel - 512 Jun 23 00:45 var | d[-_-]b dyslexicfish> > Getting back to loving Unix: I wrote a quickie wrapper for tarsnap > in Perl. It goes and > gets the excludes file from the top directory of the tree being backed > up, and creates a tarsnap > command line. Here it is: Nice... I did similar with AWK... I hate PERL with an irrational passion! Cheers, Jamie
