On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:02, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Dump, since it works at the level of the inode structure of the
> filesystem, can hand handle full filesystems only.  It has no concept
> of a subdir as its just another inode to dump.  This is also why dump
> is specific to the filesystem, meaning you can't use dump ofr ext2
> against a reiserfs or dos partition type.
>
> If they fit, this is nice & possibly faster.  But if they don't fit, tar
> is a much better way to do it.
>
That's fine.  Thanks for the explanation.

> One thing that seems to bite new users is the exclude files formating
> when using tar.
>
> Since tar traverses the directory structure, a file to be excluded must
> be specified in ./name format, which will exclude 'name' and if 'name'
> is a subdir, all files up that branch will be excluded too.
>
> This is true regardless of whether you are just nameing a single file to
> exclude, or in a file specified as full path to file which may contain
> a list of names, in which case those names in that file need to be in
> that same ./name format.

In my /home definition I have the line

"/usr/local/etc/amanda/Daily/.exclude"

and the file '.exclude' has absolute paths to the subdirectories that contain 
photos and video, e.g. /home/anne/recordings.  It seems to work.  If it 
didn't I wouldn't be able to run that at all, as it would be far too big.  I 
guess that since that DLE is actually starting from /home I could have 
shortened the path but only by one level.  Right?

Anne

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