Simplest way to do it is to make the directories that you don't want to
replicate be separate subvolumes. I do this to keep from replicating
copies of snapshot directories.
Example:
mv /home/GEO/.cache /home/GEO/.cache.tmp
btrfs sub create /home/GEO/.cache
cp -a --reflink=always /home/GEO/.cache.tmp/ /home/GEO/.cache/
cp -a --reflink=always /home/GEO/.cache.tmp/.* /home/GEO/.cache/
rm -rf /home/GEO/.cache.tmp
You could also just mv the files instead of first doing cp and then
rm'ing them, but if you have many gigs of files, the cp --reflink=always
will be a win - currently (at least, last I checked) mv across
subvolumes would actually do a full copy, whereas a cp --reflink=always
will just create new pointers to the blocks in the appropriate place
(thereby completing instantaneously).
Anyway, once .cache (or whatever) is a subvolume instead of a directory,
it will no longer get replicated with your btrfs send command of its
parent directory.
On 02/16/2014 03:07 PM, GEO 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!
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