Re: Exclude patterns

[Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk>]

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Hi Jerry,

I'm also fairly new to tarsnap and asked a similar question here a
couple of weeks ago.

See message ID  <53949731.90002@barrowhillfarm.org.uk>

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 ( jerry@tr2.com )


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