There are times when you want to simply exclude an entire directory tree and its contents from the backup. Rather than having to explicitly add an exception for each in the config file it's often useful to be able to simply 'touch .nobackup' in that directory.
This patch tweaks sbackupd to look for that file, and skip the directory (and descendants) during backups.
Currently saves me from...
I back up to a Samba-mounted drive with an inherent 2GB file size limitation. A full backup of my home dir is bigger than that -- I build a lot of embedded stuff, and full build trees for 3 or 4 CPUs eat up space like mad, easier to back it all up and not lose anything.
This patch adds a setting to limit the output of backup archive files (defaults to 1024M) by running the output from tar on...
