#!/bin/ksh

###
# Script to test how GNU tar will deal with exclusions.
#
#  mkdir /tmp/gtar-test			# work area
#  cd /tmp/gtar-test
#  mkdir testdir			# test area to back up
#  mkdir testdir/log			# create the test cases
#  touch testdir/log/do-this-file	# ...
#  touch testdir/log/skip-this-file	# ...
#  vi excludes				# set up patterns
#  Amanda.gtartest | gtar tf -		# see what happens
#
# or, you can use this same script as Amanda.gtartest-exclude and pass
# one argument which is the pattern to ignore (ala the exclude option
# in amanda.conf vs exclude-list):
#
#  ...
#  Amanda.gtartest-exclude ./log/skip-this-file | gtar tf -
###

if [[ ${0##*/} = Amanda.gtartest-exclude ]]
then
   exclude="--exclude=$1"
else
   exclude="--exclude-from=excludes"
fi

rm -f incrname
touch incrname

$DEBUG ${TAR-gtar} \
  --create \
  --directory testdir \
  --listed-incremental incrname \
  --sparse \
  --one-file-system \
  --ignore-failed-read \
  --totals \
  --file - \
  "$exclude" \
  .