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 --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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