reidar
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Posted: June 23 2005,09:01 |
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I have a question concerning the new xfiletool.lst. As far as I understand, the idea is now that you can list /home/dsl in your filetool.lst (which would result in the entire /home/dsl directory being backed up), and then you put the files/folders that you don't want to back up in the xfiletool.lst. This is a great idea, I think, but I am having problems getting it to work right. This is my case:
I have made a frugal install of DSL 1.2.1 on my new laptop. /home and /opt resides on hda4. In the /home/dsl directory I have created a Documents/ directory, which contains lots of documents. Since /home resides on the harddisk, I don't want to back up the entire /home/dsl. For instance, I do not want Documents/ folder to be backed up (since it resides on the hard disk anyway), so I added the following line to my xfiletool.lst:
Documents/
It seemed to me that you would not have to put /home/dsl in front of it. This did not work as I wanted it to, and Documents/ was still backed up, creating a rather large backup.tar.gz. I tried putting /home/dsl/Documents/ in the xfiletool.lst, same result. All of /home/dsl was backed up. In the end I decided to put all the files I wanted to back up in the filetool.lst (like in earlier versions), and omit putting /home/dsl in the filetool.lst. This worked out like I wanted it to, but I wasn't quite satisfied anyway. I think the idea of using a xfiletool.lst is good, and I want to use it. But I don't get it right... Anybody got ideas on what I'm doing wrong/what I could do to make it right?
-r
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