From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 09:08:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0903090908pf3ee030ic10422e8363be348@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509071940903090635l48dcaccfu99c4d9e269e4ec0f@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com> wrote:
> given a list of files like "/fish /dog /snake/asp /snake/python", the
> results of a vac (as interpreted by vacfs) seem to be "/fish /dog /asp
> /python". is this intentional? it seems unexpected, and makes doing
> selective backups using vac a bit awkward.
it is intentional, so that you can say
vac /long/path/to/usr/rsc
and get a vac with just "rsc" in the top level.
if you want selective backups you
can use the -x flag.
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-09 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 13:35 Anthony Sorace
2009-03-09 14:55 ` roger peppe
2009-03-09 15:11 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-09 16:08 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2009-03-09 16:43 ` roger peppe
2009-03-09 19:01 ` Russ Cox
2009-03-09 19:11 ` roger peppe
2009-03-09 19:34 ` Jeff Sickel
2009-03-09 20:55 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-03-10 3:29 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-10 3:39 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-10 3:53 ` john
2009-03-10 3:55 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-10 3:43 ` Russ Cox
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