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Date: Mon,  9 Mar 2009 09:08:50 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] vac flattens trees?
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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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