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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:54:02 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?
Message-ID:  <86tzkvurlx.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200801301139.21989.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com> (Mikhail Teterin's message of "Wed\, 30 Jan 2008 11\:39\:21 -0500")
References:  <200801301139.21989.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com>

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Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> writes:
> I'd like the entire contents of each user's .mozilla/firefox/*/Cache
> directory to be excluded from the regular filesystem dumps.
>
> Running ``chflags -R nodump /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache'' does
> the trick, but this needs to be redone daily -- prior to running the
> backup -- because new entries appear in the caches, obviously... The
> new entries don't have the nodump flag set.
>
> Is there a way, the flag can be set automatically? For example,
> inherited from the directory? Thanks!

Hmm, shoudn't whichever backup tool you're using stop when it encounters
a nodump directory?  You shouldn't need to set nodump on the files
themselves.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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