Re: tar exclude cache

2015-12-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/21/2015 06:11 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/21/2015 05:37 PM, Doug H. wrote: On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 16:19 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/21/2015 02:41 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Thank you By the way, the signature is the MD5 hash of the string ".IsCacheDirectory" and it's SPECIFICALLY l

Re: tar exclude cache

2015-12-21 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/21/2015 05:37 PM, Doug H. wrote: On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 16:19 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/21/2015 02:41 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Thank you By the way, the signature is the MD5 hash of the string ".IsCacheDirectory" and it's SPECIFICALLY looked for by tar: [snip of great info] As

Re: tar exclude cache

2015-12-21 Thread Doug H.
On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 16:19 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 12/21/2015 02:41 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Thank you > > By the way, the signature is the MD5 hash of the string > ".IsCacheDirectory" and it's SPECIFICALLY looked for by tar: [snip of great info] As a bonus question; do you know why

Re: tar exclude cache

2015-12-21 Thread Rick Stevens
abase. And even with info, the signature itself is NOT defined except in the webpage cited. What if they decide to take that site offline because the author doesn't wish to keep it up? I'm sending a copy of this note to bug-...@gnu.org. Perhaps they'll update their docs. Sent: Mon

Re: tar exclude cache

2015-12-21 Thread Patrick Dupre
s.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Re: tar exclude cache > > On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 21:29 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to exclude the .cache directories when I tar a home > > directory > > by using: > > tar -cjf /mnt/backup/home.tb

Re: tar exclude cache

2015-12-21 Thread Doug H.
On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 21:29 +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to exclude the .cache directories when I tar a home > directory > by using: > tar -cjf /mnt/backup/home.tbz2 --exclude-caches-all /home/pdupre > but it does not work. > What am I doing wrong ? Do the .cache dirs eac

tar exclude cache

2015-12-21 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I am trying to exclude the .cache directories when I tar a home directory by using: tar -cjf /mnt/backup/home.tbz2 --exclude-caches-all /home/pdupre but it does not work. What am I doing wrong ? Thank for your help. =