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To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: Re: Automatic `nodump' flag?
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Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> writes:
> I'd like the entire contents of each user's .mozilla/firefox/*/Cache
> directory to be excluded from the regular filesystem dumps.
>
> Running ``chflags -R nodump /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache'' does
> the trick, but this needs to be redone daily -- prior to running the
> backup -- because new entries appear in the caches, obviously... The
> new entries don't have the nodump flag set.
>
> Is there a way, the flag can be set automatically? For example,
> inherited from the directory? Thanks!

Hmm, shoudn't whichever backup tool you're using stop when it encounters
a nodump directory?  You shouldn't need to set nodump on the files
themselves.

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