On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Stefan Sorin Nicolin
<bacula AT nicolinux DOT org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have yet another exclusive configuration need. I'd like to back up a
> file _without_ it's contents. I noticed that under Gentoo Linux /dev/
> tty12 takes a lot of useless space. The terminal output is stored
> there - somethig that I can very well live without in case I have to
> restore a system from backup.
> The only way I can imagine it right now is to exclude the file
> completely and create a dedicated restore jobdef where /dev/tty12 is
> created per runscript directive. This doesen't feel right though.
> Any ideas?
>

Use the option to not descend into other filesystems to not backup /dev at all.

John

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