From d8915bac605d771744dcf76b11aedf3488a3a9c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jamie Cameron Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:03:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] TAR exclude options --- fsdump/CHANGELOG | 1 + fsdump/help/exclude.html | 6 ++++++ fsdump/lang/en | 1 + fsdump/linux-lib.pl | 10 ++++++++++ 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 fsdump/help/exclude.html diff --git a/fsdump/CHANGELOG b/fsdump/CHANGELOG index a9c544171..4b1f03a67 100644 --- a/fsdump/CHANGELOG +++ b/fsdump/CHANGELOG @@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ Added a warning if % is used in filenames but strftime substition is not enabled When making tar format backups on Linux, an option to just append new files to the archive instead of over-writing it is available. ---- Changes since 1.400 ---- Fixed remote tar backups via FTP on OSX. +Files and directories to exclude can be specified for TAR format backups on Linux. diff --git a/fsdump/help/exclude.html b/fsdump/help/exclude.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4b6e9e839 --- /dev/null +++ b/fsdump/help/exclude.html @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +
Files and directories to skip
+ +This field can be used to enter a list of space-separated filenames to exclude from the backup. You can also enter full paths like /etc/passwd, or shell patterns like *.tmp.

+ +