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Re: nodump on Linux
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Colin Percival wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 09/17/11 20:50, David Adam wrote:
> > I'm using tarsnap 1.0.30 on Ubuntu 11.04 and I'm a bit confused about when
> > the nodump flag is honoured.
>
> It should be honoured whenever you use the --nodump option. Something weird
> is going on here.
>
> > Am I approaching this the wrong way?
>
> No, you're quite right that what you're seeing doesn't make sense.
>
> Is everything on the same filesystem? What type of filesystem? If you run
> tarsnap with the -w option, does it prompt on these directories? Does tar
> work properly? (Which version of tar did you try?)
Yep, this is all on the same filesystem, type ext4
(rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0).
Tarsnap does prompt with the -w option for the same pattern of directories
as above.
GNU tar 1.25 on Ubuntu doesn't know or care about the dump flag/attribute.
> I'll probably have more questions later. ;-)
Thanks for your help!
David Adam
zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au