On Aug 23, 2015, Garance AE Drosehn <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Aug 22, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Garance AE Drosehn <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Is there any way that tarsnap would tell me which files >>> have new data, at least when I'm doing a dry-run? [...] > > > I looked through some earlier messages to this mailing list, and > I'm going to adapt the idea that Hugo Osvaldo Barrera described > in January 2015 on "How I keep track of file additions/removals".
How about some way that tarsnap would tell me all the filenames that it will include in the archive? This time I don't mean the ones which have "New data", but all of the filenames which would be included in "This Archive"? Consider that for some archives I might specify a number of filters (such as "skip all .jpeg files"), and if I write a script to keep track of files, then that script should ignore all the same files which tarsnap itself will ignore. The same thing issue comes up with options like "-n", "--newer", "--nodump", etc. And some of those options might be specified in the tarsnap config files. I'd rather tarsnap gave the script a list of filenames, instead of trying to re-implement all of tarsnap's selection mechanism in my script. Maybe call the option --dry-run-listing One tricky part might be how '-C' processing would effect what tarsnap lists to the script. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [email protected] Senior Systems Programmer or [email protected]
