On Sep 12, 2007, at 1:03 PM, George Sinclair wrote:
Hi,
By default, the 'Unix standard directives' skips all core files as:
<< / >>
skip: tmp_mnt
+skip: core
This is the directive I usually use for most clients, but I've
found that this causes any file or directory with the name 'core'
to get skipped (not surprising, of course), even if it lives under
some other file system other than / (that seems kinda surprising).
I would have thought that in order for a directory named 'core' to
get skipped under, say, '/export/disk2/core', assuming /disk2 is a
separate file system, that there would need to be another entry for
this in the directive but apparently not. Anyway, maybe skipping
core files is not a bad idea (some can be quite large), but maybe
we should still remove the line that does this so in case a user,
or some software package, creates a directory named 'core' it will
get backed up? For example, consider the following directory:
I used to skip core files too, then some VIP happened to lose a file
on a failed hard drive. The file name was "core." Right than and
there, I took out that directive. Better to back up too many files
than not enough!
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