Re: [Dump-users] Inode exclusion list limitation

[Marc T. <ma...@dr...>]

Hi Kirk,

Why not use another dump & ext2/3 feature - the "nodump" filesystem flag?

Use the chattr(1) command to set the "nodump" flag on files and
directories you wish to exclude from backups.

Then use the "-h" dump option to specify the minimum backup level which
will honour this flag. The default honour level is 1, meaning that full
backups (level 0) will include all files regardless of this flag, thus if
you want a full backup to exclude "nodump" files, specify -h0 on the dump
command line.

Have a look at the chattr(1) and the dump(8) manpages for further details.

Example:
find /home -iname '*.mp3' -type f -print -exec chattr +d {} \;

...will list all the mp3 files in /home, and turn on the nodump flag for
them.

Note that if you set "nodump" on a directory, it will exclude everything
in that directory (and any subdirectories) regardless of their individual
settings (hence the "-type f" in the example above).

Hope that's of some help!

Regards,
Marc