Re: nodump on Linux

[David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>]

Just wondering if you'd had any further thoughts on this?

Thanks

David

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, David Adam wrote:
> 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
> 

Cheers,

David Adam
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