On 16 February 2014 20:07, GEO <1g2e3o4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been experimenting with btrfs send/receive for incremental backups, but > could not figure out how to exclude certain directories from > subvolumes/snapshots. For example, I want to backup my data in home, but I am > not interested in backing up hidden directories like .cache too. > Is it currently possible to achieve something like that? > > Thanks for the great work! > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Hi, You could create a read-write snapshot, remove the directories that you're not interested in, then create a read-only snapshot of that to send, then remove the read-write snapshot. Note that I've not tested this myself, so I can't guarantee that it will work. (It makes sense in my head though!) Cheers, WorMzy (apologies if you receive this twice, I just noticed that gmail doesn't reply to this mailing list, it replies to the person directly) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
